Grant
Shapps, the International Development Minister for the U.K. government, has
told a delegation of African leaders at the UN General Assembly that solar PV’s capacity to
transform the energy landscape of sub-Saharan Africa will be supported at every
step by the U.K.
With
solar panel costs
falling, efficiencies increasing, and a thirst for reliable and affordable
energy growing ever larger across many parts of Africa, Shapps said that the
U.K. will take action to ensure a solar-powered
transformation of household energy will remain a crucial issue on the global
agenda.
"Governments,
investors and aid agencies have the power to tear down regulatory barriers,
attract new finance and ignite a solar revolution across Africa," Shapps said.
"Britain will play a leading role in making this a reality. This is not only the
right thing to do, it is also firmly in the U.K.’s own national interest as we
create a more prosperous and safer world for us all."
The
minister added that a lack of clean and reliable power has served to hold
back social and economic development in
many parts of Africa, but is of the opinion that solar power holds the key to
unlocking the continent’s potential.
"The
decreasing cost of solar panels, better and more efficient technology and the
spread of simple mobile payment schemes give us a clear opportunity to solve
this," Shapps told the attendant African leaders, investors and business
executives at the General Assembly in New York. "I have seen for myself how
solar energy can transform lives. People can continue their jobs or school work
after the sun goes down, businesses can expand and families do not have to rely
on kerosene or charcoal cookers, which fill houses with poisonous fumes."
The
meeting took place in the wake of the Sustainable Development Summit, which
included the adoption of the new Global Goals initiative, which outlines a
strategy to ensure universal energy access to all by 2030.
Shapps’
message will accompany the minister at the first G20 Conference on Energy Access
in sub-Saharan Africa in Istanbul on October 1. This pro-solar stance from the
U.K. government is at odds with its posturing domestically, where the
Conservatives have recently announced
drastic cuts to the subsidy schemes –
namely the FIT and the Renewable
Obligation Certificate (ROC) – that served to propel the U.K. solar industry to
unprecedented heights last year, and so far in 2015.
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