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Beacon Power Services’ founder and CEO, Bim Adisa, speaks at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi. [Juliet Omelo, Standard]
The conversation around Africa’s energy future has focused too heavily on electricity generation while overlooking major losses within distribution systems, according to industry experts.
Speaking during the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, the founder and CEO of Beacon Power Services, Bim Adisa, said weak electricity distribution networks remain one of the continent’s most under-discussed energy challenges despite millions of consumers grappling with unreliable power supply.
Adisa argued that while governments and investors have largely concentrated on expanding generation capacity and, to some extent, transmission infrastructure, distribution systems continue to suffer massive inefficiencies that undermine electricity access and reliability.
