Greater electricity access and the transition to renewable energy are crucial if future health emergencies are to be tackled successfully. The severe impact of Covid-19 on developed countries means the supply chains feeding material and staff to African projects have been severely interrupted. Energy access saves livesDamilola Ogunbiyi, the recently appointed chief executive of SEforAll and chair of the 2020 Africa Energy Forum is better placed than most to assess the outlook. However, to power a response to the pandemic, access to sufficient, uninterrupted, reliable electricity is critical to protect the most vulnerable. Energy access quite literally saves lives and why we need to deploy solutions to the most at risk quickly,” she tells us.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 24, 2020 12:33 UTC