{"id":20832,"date":"2019-03-08T05:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=20832"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:24:02","slug":"electrified-africa-prospering-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2019\/03\/08\/electrified-africa-prospering-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrified Africa, Prospering Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imgabdaspe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imgabdaspe.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imgabdaspe-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/imgabdaspe-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Along with the population of more than a billion and increasing access to power, sub-Saharan Africa could present a vast market for electrical products and services \u2013 sectors that are among Hong Kong\u2019s fortes.<\/p>\n<p>In its 2017 World Economic Outlook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said energy for all in the region is achievable by 2030, provided 95% of the US$52 billion investment per year enforced worldwide for electricity-for-all goes into sub-Saharan Africa. <\/p>\n<p>The region may be a laggard on access for power, but the situation has changed effectively in recent times, and now 71% of the region\u2019s urban residents have power. The rise in power capacity has created a strong and growing demand for electrical appliances.<\/p>\n<p>While many urban households have been able to get connected recently, most rural areas remain in the dark, with a penetration rate of just 22% in the countryside. Wiring rural communities up often proves expensive because of the long distances involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the population of more than a billion and increasing access to power, sub-Saharan Africa could present a vast market for electrical products and services \u2013 sectors that are &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[479],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}