Electrify Africa 2030 & ANSOLE Declaration

An international alliance formed to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 for Africa: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all people. The Electrify Africa 2030 consortium is being created to address the important and urgent problem of over 600 million people in Africa with no connection to reliable electrical power. This slows sustainable development and impedes adaptation to climate change in a vast continent of abundant natural resources and human potential stymied by the failure of traditional approaches to electrify the continent. Solutions are emerging to deliver broadband internet communications to people across Africa creating opportunities for information and communications, telehealth, government services and more. Cell phone technology has opened a wide range of services including financial services for trade, but cell phones must be charged and the cell- phone transmission towers and routers must be connected to a source of electrical p