Africa urged to embrace wind power to create jobs and g...
By Kim Harrisberg Wind projects are growing fast, with 724MW of new capacity added in 2020, bringing the total to 6468MW across Africa – equal to taking more than 2 million cars off the road, said the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), which represents the sector. “Now is the time to urgently scale-up wind power in the region … as a driver of local jobs and investment to power a green economic recovery from the pandemic,” said Emerson Clarke, Africa Task Force Coordinator at the Brussels-based GWEC. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa has warned that the continent faces ...
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