According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, Rwanda had about 25 megawatts of deployed solar at the end of 2023, the same figure recorded in the last five years.
Henry Nyakarundi, the brain behind African Renewable Energy Development (ARED), suggests that the current regulation makes it hard for investors in renewable energy to deploy and scale their investments.
The problem, he says, is that the government is the regulator and at the same time a player in the same sector, which makes it a tough business when you have to compete with the government.
Rwandan plans to revise the current energy policy to introduce new changes that will ensure accelerated adoption of renewable energy.
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