Off-grid liquid fuel: an expensive last resort for business


Issue 475 - 05 Jan 2023 - By Tonderayi Mukeredzi | 1 minute read

Off-grid liquid generation remains a costly default option for retail customers in countries with unreliable grids. Half-a-dozen grid collapses this year in Nigeria have demonstrated how unreliable and underpowered the grid is, with diesel and other small genset backups estimated to comprise as much as 12GW of off-grid liquid capacity.

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