{"id":12653,"date":"2025-08-17T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expadd.org\/africas-solar-market-exciting-prospects-for-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T11:27:03","slug":"africas-solar-market-exciting-prospects-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expadd.org\/en\/africas-solar-market-exciting-prospects-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s solar market: exciting prospects for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Solar Echo, January 2025<\/p>\n<p>The latest report from the <strong>Global Solar Council<\/strong> (GSC) reveals that 23 GW of new solar photovoltaic capacity is expected to be installed over the next four years in Africa. However, access to low-cost financing remains a major obstacle to African countries realizing this potential. Removing this obstacle will be crucial to achieving the world&#8217;s climate and sustainable development goals, believes the GSC.<span id=\"more-35264\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The African solar sector is gaining momentum, with annual installations set to grow by 42% by 2025, according to a new report published by the World Solar Council (GSC), in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and with the support of GET.invest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lechodusolaire.fr\/le-marche-du-solaire-africain-devrait-connaitre-une-croissance-de-42-en-2025\/#:~:text=07%202025%20%7C%200-,Le%20march%C3%A9%20du%20solaire%20africain%20devrait,croissance%20de%2042%25%20en%202025&amp;text=Le%20dernier%20rapport%20du%20Global,quatre%20prochaines%20ann%C3%A9es%20en%20Afrique.\">African solar market to grow by 42% by 2025 &#8211; L&#8217;Echo du Solaire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Solar Echo, January 2025 The latest report from the Global Solar Council (GSC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-renewable-energies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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