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Global Horizontal Irradiance in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1]
Global Horizontal Irradiance in North Africa and the Middle East.[1]

Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.[2] According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of bright sunshine during the course of the year than any other continent of the Earth:[3] and many of the sunniest countries on the planet are in Africa.[4]

Despite its immense solar power potential, Africa continues to lag behind other continents when it comes to building up grid and off-grid solar capacity, in part due to a lack of investment.[5][6]

  1. ^ a b "Global Solar Atlas". Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  2. ^ Griffiths, I.L. (2013). The Atlas of African Affairs. Taylor & Francis. p. 15. ISBN 9781135855529. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  3. ^ Powell, R.; Bowden, D.; Tresemer, D.; Bento, W.; Farrants, W.; Gray, B.; Dann, K.; Paul, L.; Lainson, C.M.L.; Nurney, S. (2012). Journal for Star Wisdom 2013. Lindisfarne Books. ISBN 9781584201366. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  4. ^ "Sunniest Places and Countries in the World - Current Results". currentresults.com. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  5. ^ "A Snapshot of Global PV (1992-2015)" (PDF). IEA. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  6. ^ Masterson, Victoria (2022-09-23). "Africa is leading the way in solar power potential".

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