Access to energy is critical to Africa’s development and growth. Energy is the sustenance of all economies and an enabler of better welfare; where there is a deficit in supply, this cripples economic growth and destroys livelihoods. Due to the urgent need to rapidly reduce carbon emissions and respond to the highly negative impact of climate change, there is a strong push towards promoting economic diversification and value chain development, accelerating access to energy in remote areas, and addressing the challenge of geographically complex terrain, all of which make expansion of access to renewable energy sources a development imperative.