Despite the poor power situation in Africa, the continent’s poor pay some of the highest bills for electricity, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi A. Adesina has told world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
“Per capita electricity use in Africa averages 181 kwH compared to about 13,000 KwH in the United States of America and over 6,500 KwH in Europe.
“Africa’s poorest pay some of the highest energy costs in the world.
“A woman living in northern Nigeria pays up to 80 times per unit of energy compared to a resident in London or New York.
“Today, over 645 million Africans do not have access to electricity – and 700 million go without access to clean cooking energy, with 600,000 dying each year from indoor pollution from reliance on biomass for cooking,” Mr Adesina said at the launch of the Transformative Partnership on Energy for Africa, which is meant to accelerate universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025.
