A new World Bank study outlines how Sub-Saharan Africa's struggling power utilities can be financially viable and at the same time make access to electricity affordable for the poor.
Currently, only one in three Africans has access to electricity and for those who do, power outages can be common as cash-strapped utilities struggle to maintain steady, reliable supply because of lack of investments in their aging infrastructures.
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