Country Quote by Bill Gates

“Africa, in particular, has barely begun to exploit its renewable energy potential. Energy analysts say that solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass sources could…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across…

— Alex Honnold

Developing good investments in Africa is by and large the best for the people of Africa that have a job, that have electricity, that…

— Erik Prince

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

— Ethan Zuckerman

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point…

— Barack Obama

Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So it is…

— Wangari Maathai

If we can speed up the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries with investments from the Green Climate Fund, hundreds of millions…

— Ed Davey

We need to tackle energy poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little…

— Tom Hodgkinson

“If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be…

— Michio Kaku

For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.

— John S. Watson

There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and…

— Jacqueline Novogratz