Nigeria has commissioned 173 mini-grids and a hundred thousand new connections in the past few years. The infrastructure works. The economic transformation it was supposed to trigger has been quieter. INENSUS CEO Nico Peterschmidt argues the missing piece isn't more capacity. It's a buyer for what the community produces, and a value chain that lets income flow back.
A $1 billion Microsoft and G42 data center deal in Kenya's Great Rift Valley has quietly slipped past its launch date. The reason President Ruto gave is the one Africa's sovereign-AI conversation has been avoiding: powering the facility would have consumed a third of the country's installed generation capacity. The deal is the clearest illustration to date of a thesis this column has been building across earlier Inside Impact pieces. There is no shortcut around the grid.
An earlier Inside Impact piece argued that the missing layer in rural electrification is not power but reliable off-take. Two operators are now answering that question in real time. Husk Power Systems is doing it commercially across India and Nigeria; Nuru is doing it socially in eastern Congo. Both have started attracting the kind of capital the sector spent a decade waiting for.
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Martin Short has broken his silence on the heartbreaking loss of his daughter, Katherine Short, who died by suicide earlier this year. In a poignant interview w
This Mother's Day is particularly poignant for Savannah Guthrie, who is urgently seeking the return of her mother, Nancy. The "Today" show co-anchor took to Ins
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