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China is building a third of Africas new power capacity
2016-07-05 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical