Alternative energy sources will not only help Ethiopia's target of achieving universal electricity access by 2025, but it also cultivates huge business opportunity to the private sector, according to a high-level energy expert.
Speaking to The Ethiopian Herald, Yeheyis Eshetu, Acting Director of Alternative Energy Technology Transfer Directorate with Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity (MoWIE), said that while the government is working to rapidly accelerate access to electricity to the entire population by 2025, it is clear that there must also be more effective and aggressive off-grid alternatives, to national power grid, for the rural population living in remote areas. And this is where alternative energy sources like biomass and solar energy come into play and provide intermediary solutions.
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