THE ROADMAP

When measuring Power Africa’s impact and progress
toward our connection goal, we only count direct
or actual connections of households and businesses
to the grid or off-grid. The strategies laid out in this
Roadmap focus on direct new connections.
EXHIBIT 15
ROADMAP TO 60 MILLION CONNECTIONS
Connections, million
Power Africa has already supported projects that
have the potential to lead to more than one million
direct new household and business connections.
Most of these connections are off-grid, and come
from two sources: 50 grants from the Power Africa
Off-Grid Energy Challenge awarded to organizations
in nine countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia); and
16 projects were awarded funding through the U.S.-
Africa Clean Energy Finance (ACEF) initiative.
Households Connected
to Micro-Grids
Urban Households
Connected to the Grid
GOAL: 60 MILLION
CONNECTIONS
OVER
17 M
OVER
8 M
OVER
11 M
OVER
24 M
Off-Grid Home
Power Systems
Rural Connections
to the Grid
NEW CONNECTIONS
THROUGH BEYOND
THE GRID
NEW CONNECTIONS
THROUGH GRID
ROLL-OUT PROGRAMS
CONNECTIONS
ROADMAP
Reaching 60 million new connections
requires a broad-based approach. To
achieve our goal, we will pursue two
strategies (see Exhibit 15):
• Support grid roll-out programs in both
urban and rural areas (35 – 40 million
connections)
• Intensify Beyond the Grid efforts (25 – 30
million connections) to facilitate additional
off-grid connections.
Of the 35 – 40 million new grid connections
expected to be added, 24 – 27 million are expected
to be in urban areas and 11 – 13 million in rural
areas (see Exhibit 15).
We will leverage the expertise and resources
of development finance institutions and other
funding partners to help bring in the large volume
of capital needed to drive grid expansion projects,
especially where utilities remain publicly owned.
Where utilities are private companies, we
will work with our partners to increase their
performance and bring in new investment to help
fund transmission and distribution expansion.
Source: Beyond the Grid strategy and team analysis based on International
Energy Agency, World Bank, and geospatial data.
Private companies have brought great innovation
to the off-grid space, and we will continue
to make resources available to help scale up
successful models and develop new ones.
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