The Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) Annual Results report 2024 shows successful progress of the programme implementation, despite challenging circumstances in several BGFA countries. In total, over 610,000 energy connections had been established by year end, impacting a total of 3.15 million lives and benefitting almost 5,000 African businesses, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
During 2024, the BGFA programme provided 370,000 new energy connections – typically small solar home systems – bringing total subscriptions to over 610,000 by the end of the year. BGFA has also created over 12,700 sales agent positions, generated 25,700 MWh of clean electricity, and avoided approx. 66,000 tonnes of CO2e emissions.