3.5 Million Ghanaians Still in the Dark as Microgrid Funding Gap Persists

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/3-5-million-ghanaians-still-in-the-dark-as-microgrid-funding-gap-persists/Ghana has achieved an electricity access rate of 89.03 percent, a figure that represents one of sub-Saharan Africa’s more creditable electrification records. But the 10.97 percent that remains unserved, approximately 3.5 million people concentrated in remote, island, and lakeside communities, represents a population that the national grid is structurally unlikely to reach within any realistic […] News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/3-5-million-ghanaians-still-in-the-dark-as-microgrid-funding-gap-persists/


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