Botswana’s sunshine finds an investor in KP EnergyB2
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Bright skies: KP Energy has big plans for the country’s abundant solar energy PIC: INDIAMART.COM
The group’s local entry is a BITC-accredited and facilitated project, and it comes with scale to match the ambition: a memorandum of understanding worth an estimated $4 billion, aimed at growing Botswana’s renewable energy capacity to nearly 5 gigawatts, a more than eight-hundred-fold increase on the roughly 6 megawatts of installed renewable capacity the country carried as recently as 2021.
A global renewable
As the Botswana National Front (BNF) discusses a policy to place suitably qualified members in strategic positions, the guiding consideration should remain whether an individual is the best person to serve the country. There is nothing wrong with qualified party members applying for public positions. Political affiliation should neither disqualify a capable candidate nor give them an advantage over others. Every Motswana deserves a fair...