A study into green rural job creation in West Africa suggests that decentralised renewable energy solutions will play a pivotal role in driving green employment opportunities in underserved rural areas. The Alliance for Rural Electrification collaborated with the Konrad-Adenauer Found on the study Catalysing Green Rural Job Creating with Decentralised Renewable Energies in West Africa. Taking as its starting point the IRENA 2021 study that posits renewable energy is expected to account for 45 million jobs worldwide by 2050 and the idea that renewable energy technology will create three times as many jobs as fossil fuels per million dollar spend (also an IRENA study from 2021), the Catalysing Green Rural Jobs study set about to create data on decentralised renewable energy in creation, with particular emphasis on how to calculate direct DRE jobs. Global renewable energy jobs boom since 2012 – reportThis is of pertinence to sub-Saharan Africa where a population of 567 million of the global 675 million people without access to electricity, reside. Read the Catalysing Green Rural Job Creating with Decentralised Renewable Energies in West Africa report online.
