By Tessa Kipping, Solar Aid, Source: Business Green

UK charity SolarAid is calling on the solar sector to take on the African solar market – from the bottom up.

Following founder Jeremy Leggett’s trip to Kenya and Zambia earlier this year, SolarAid sent out an appeal to the UK solar sector to support the industry in Africa.

Energy access in Africa is quite clearly not going to be fuelled by antiquated fossil fuels. Every day more and more reports explain that Africa will leap frog fossil fuels and go straight to renewables for its energy needs. Anecdotal information backs this up too. SolarAid is daily told about company pipelines, including more African governments and solar businesses in South Africa that are recruiting 20 staff at a time to cope with rising demand.

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