UN Forum: Nigeria, NGO unveil 10mw solar pilot to bridge Africa’s energy gap

From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye , Abuja
An organisation known as DoTheDream Youth Development Initiative has used the 11th United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Forum to demand concrete solutions.
It also unveiled a 10-megawatt solar pilot as a replicable model for the Global South.
The high-level side event, ‘She Powers the Planet: Girls in Energy at the Frontline — Innovate, Illuminate, Inspire’, co-organised with the Permanent Mission of Nigeria, CoNGO, the Mactay Foundation (IFTDO) and Servas International, described the continent’s electricity shortfall as a structural injustice that disproportionately affects women and girls.
“Over 600 million people in Afric...