Germany is committing to more solar on working farmland but developers also need faster action by local authorities and industry recruitment is a major challenge.
Originally backed with $100,000 from USAID's Global Development Lab, Off.Grid:Electric is scaling up to light one million homes in the next five years— expanding into East Africa, where 85% of homes are off the grid.
A recent study by the Global Industry Analysts (GIA) estimate that the thin film PV market is set to reach $22.8bn by the year 2020, and indicates that the rise of solar power as an alternative to fossil fuels is set to continue.