Fri, 21 June, 2024
The PowerPath project addresses both short-term energy access and long-term sustainable development challenges in Africa more effectively than most current solutions. It quickly provides basic and affordable energy services to off-grid communities while building the power infrastructure needed for sustainable development in the future.
Each year, over 12 million young people enter Africa's job market. PowerPath's significant local impact on job creation empowers these young people to build lasting 21st-century electric infrastructures for their countries. PowerPath supports a horizontal power industry, made up of small local entrepreneurs who develop increasingly complex infrastructures and businesses. This includes promoting female entrepreneurship, with 15% female participation already achieved by Nanoé in recent years.
Nanoé's Lateral Electrification model tackles Africa's biggest challenges—energy access and sustainable development—by gradually building electric infrastructures and training many local electric operators. Their success in Madagascar includes installing over 1500 nanogrids, one village-wide microgrid, and training more than 100 nano-entrepreneurs, 15% of whom are female. Nanoé's training programs and their collaboration with G2ELab on hardware and software innovations have proven effective and are ready for wider deployment across Africa.
Our project aims to reduce the need for public planning and ease political pressure in targeted areas of Madagascar, specifically the municipalities of Ambanja, Ambilobe, Diego, Antsohihy, and Vohemar, with plans to expand further.