By five years on from the project’s completion, PowerPath is predicted to have created 27,000 new jobs, generated £225M in revenue, and connected 30M users across Sub-Saharan African countries, with an abundance of GWs installed, for which there is no import substitution at the moment.
PowerPath is answering both short-term energy access and long-term sustainable development challenges in the African power sector more efficiently than current electrification solutions. It quickly provides African off-grid populations with basic and affordable energy services, while progressively building next century power infrastructure able to support the continent’s sustainable development.
Africa's employment market welcomes \>12M young people yearly. PowerPath's high impact on local jobs will place the responsibility of building lasting 21st century electric infrastructures for their countries within their hands. Local entrepreneurs, including females, will be able to develop increasingly complex infrastructures and ever more advanced businesses as a result of the horizontal power industry structure enabled by PowerPath.
The Lateral Electrification model proposed by Nanoé answers the two greatest challenges faced by the African continent today, namely energy-access and sustainable development, through the progressive building of electric infrastructures and the training of a myriad local, electric operators. Its experience in Madagascar is a success with the installation of more than 2,800 nanogrids, three village-wide microgrids and the training of more than 100 nano-entrepreneurs, 15% of which are female, attracted by Nanoe's training programmes. These show the high potential of this electrification model for Africa. The hardware and software innovations developed in collaboration with G2ELab, as well as the marketing and organisational approaches proposed by Nanoé, are field-tested and now ready to be deployed on a larger scale for the replicability of the Lateral Electrification model in Africa.