The government has launched a new sustainable electrification plan for the country

Africa is considered by the international renewable energy agency IRENA to be the power plant for renewable energy and the proof is that many countries, such as Togo, have started sustainable electrification programs.

Togo, a small country in south-western Africa, whose name, in the Ewe language means “going to the water”, has a population of about 5.5 million inhabitants who live mainly in villages and deal with agriculture and sheep farming.

The population suffers from the difficulty of accessing energy, in fact the network coverage, until 2016, covered only 30% of its territory with problems related to social and economic development.

The Togolese government has decided to allocate 1.5 billion dollars to bring electricity coverage, by 2030, to 100% of its territory, choosing solar energy as a sustainable energy source.

The choice of this renewable source has found wide support in the government, as both the territory and the distribution of the population per km. square imposed a project that would make the service available to everyone at the lowest possible cost and achievable in the right time.

Solar energy is produced in the presence of the sun or with cloudy skies and allows to generate electricity, heating and desalination of water even in the most remote villages without the need for special structures.

Today, photovoltaics is one of the most flexible, fast installation, sustainable energy technologies with low costs after falling panel prices and long life, considering that a solar panel lasts an average of 30 years.

Probably today this form of energy has become the cheapest in relation to the distance of the consumer from the energy transmission networks.

Automatic translation. We apologize for any inaccuracies. Original article in Italian.