Cape Verde Leads With 100% Renewable Electricity By 2020 Target
Steve Hanley, Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai, Written By
To accomplish that goal, it established Project Cabeólica, the first public–private partnership to deliver commercial-scale wind power in sub-Saharan Africa. Combined with its solar installations, it gets more than a third of its energy from renewables. It not only wants to meet all its electrical needs from renewables; it wants to be a resource for all of Africa so it can help neighboring countries accomplish the same thing. “Cape Verde wants to serve as a laboratory,” he says. “We see our investment in renewable energy as something larger,” Mr Costa said.