Nearly half of Mozambique families lack any electricity at home, and for those that do, almost 20% rely on solar panels for self-consumption, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The Survey on the Impact of Access to Sustainable Energy in 2022, completed this month by INE, revealed that 50.1% of the country’s over […]
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