Lastly, the company GE Africa will collaborate with US African Development Foundation (USADF) and US Agency for International Development (USAID), on the expansion of Round Three of the Power Africa Off-Grind Energy Challenge. The project will be open to entrepreneurs and energy companies in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia with a sum total of up to US$1.1million Sh111million). It will also have fifty awards to energy entrepreneurs in eleven African countries across the continent.
The projects are in line with US President remarks America’s Power Africa Initiative had been leveraging private capital to invest in electrification all across the continent.
“Our preliminary goal was 10,000 megawatts; now we are looking at 30,000 megawatts, and we are on our way,” President Obama said.
