Minigrids seen as answer for 620m Africans without power
Major firms are building them to distribute power to villages instead of whole nations
London
POWER grids that work at a fraction of the scale of a traditional utility have gained support from banks and developers as a way to bring power to the 620 million people across Africa that lack access to electricity.
From Kenya to Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, companies including Italy's biggest utility Enel SpA and General Electric Co (GE) of the US are building minigrids that distribute power to villages instead of whole nations.
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