Summary

Article Metadata

Solar Mini-grid for Nigerian Villages

This is a Nigeria news story, published by Ars Technica, that relates primarily to Global North news.

Nigeria news

For more Nigeria news, you can click here:

more Nigeria news

News about Africa business & economics

For more Africa business & economics news, you can click here:

more Africa business & economics news

Ars Technica news

For more news from Ars Technica, you can click here:

more news from Ars Technica

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best business news, entertainment news, world news, and much more. If you like this article about Africa business & economics, you might also like this article about

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest renewable energy news, national electricity grid news, news about Africa business & economics, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Ars Technica

Ars Technica

•

World

World

For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids

Ars Technica

Summary

Nutrition label

88% Informative

Two villages in Nigeria 's deep south had never been connected to the national electricity grid.

When a renewable-energy company proposed installing a solar “mini-grid” in their community, the villagers scoffed at the idea of the sun powering their homes.

Like many African nations, Nigeria has lagged behind Global North countries in shifting away from planet-warming fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.

VR Score

91

Informative language

93

Neutral language

46

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

64

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

External references

38

https://about.bnef.com/blog/coal-declines-amid-solar-boom-in-south-africa-in-five-charts/https://www.wri.org/update/morocco-fuel-subsidy-reform-designed-support-just-transition-renewable-energy https://rea.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NERC-Mini-Grid-Regulation.pdf https://afripoli.org/profile/chibuikem-agbaegbu https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/geothermal-power-heats-up-new-technologies https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/africa/#:~:text=Despite%20being%20the%20sunniest%20continent,their%20legacy%20gas%20power%20generation.https://climatepromise.undp.org/what-we-do/our-team/stephen-kansuk-esq https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/food-environment/2022/lifetime-climate-change https://grist.org/politics/usaid-elon-musk-trump-climate/https://www.iea.org/countries/kenya/electricity https://www.energyincadvisors.com/https://rmi.org/insight/harvesting-sunshine/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/31/india-solar-energy/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/general-view-of-a-hybrid-minigrids-station-in-doma-town-news-photo/1758947420 https://www.iea.org/reports/climate-impacts-on-african-hydropower/climate-risks-to-african-hydropower https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1758947420-scaled.jpg https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P179687 https://www.rolakeakinkugbe.com/about https://rmi.org/people/suleiman-babamanu/https://www.statista.com/statistics/1287508/africa-share-in-global-co2-emissions/https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html https://www.renewvia.com/our-team https://farmwarehouse.ng/author/admin/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65737846 https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2025/nigeria-bets-on-solar-minigrids-for-climate-livelihood https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759 https://acdi.uct.ac.za/contacts/bruno-merven https://www.undp.org/energy/africa-minigrids-program#:~:text=The%20AMP%20is%20a%20country-led%20technical%20assistance%20program,enabling%20environment%20for%20subsequent%20private%20investment%20at%20scale.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/https://rea.gov.ng/nep-solar-hybrid-mini-grid-component-reaches-milestone-103-mini-grids-successfully-deployed-across-nigeria/https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2021/the-dazzling-history-solar-power https://www.iea.org/news/doubling-energy-investment-in-africa-requires-urgent-action-to-bring-down-financing-costs-and-boost-access-to-capital https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419807/solar-energy-share-electricity-mix-us/#:~:text=Solar%20energy%20accounted%20for%20some,solar%2C%20with%20approximately%2027.3%20percent.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195925522001834 https://www.iea.org/reports/financing-clean-energy-in-africa https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2023-01/%5BFINAL%5D%2020220115_ZOD_SEForAll_AfricanManufacturingReport.pdf https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2023/how-wind-turbines-could-coexist-peacefully-bats-and-birds https://research-hub.nrel.gov/en/persons/tim-reber

Affiliate links

no affiliate links

Read full article

Small business owner?

Otherweb launches Autoblogger—a revolutionary way to bring more leads to any small business, using the power of AI.

Powered by Otherweb