Climate Home: Chinese state-owned companies are increasingly active in sub-Saharan Africa and dominate the hydropower dam business
China brought electricity to half a billion of its people in the two decades to 2000.
Now, it is emerging one of the biggest builders of power projects in sub-Saharan Africa, where some 635 million people are off grid.
Over the past five years, Chinese companies built 7GW of generation capacity on the continent -- 30% of new installations -- according to a report published...