What It Will Really Take to Electrify All of Africa: Don't Underestimate the Sub-Sahara's Grid Issues and Population Growth

IF 2.4 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11150666

G. Pascal Zachary

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Abstract

I dined Recently with Joe, a Nigerian who manages a 400-hectare rice farm in the north of his country. Nigeria imports about 2.4 million tonnes of rice annually, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers like Joe are helping to move his country of 237 million people toward self-sufficiency in rice.

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全非洲通电到底需要什么：不要低估撒哈拉以南地区的电网问题和人口增长

最近我和尼日利亚人乔共进晚餐，他在尼日利亚北部经营着一个400公顷的水稻农场。根据美国农业部的数据，尼日利亚每年进口约240万吨大米。像乔这样的农民正在帮助这个拥有2.37亿人口的国家实现大米自给自足。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

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0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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