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Jun 24, 2025
2025 Update: Africa EV Readiness and Impact Index

Joel Nana is a Fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub and a Senior Manager at Sustainable Energy Africa. His Africa-focused work spans grid integration of distributed energy resources, urban energy profiling, city-wide energy-systems modeling, and electric mobility, with capacity-building for policymakers woven into every project. Joel holds a PhD with the Energy Systems Research Group at the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Applied Physics, and a BEng in Electrical Engineering.
Summary To achieve an equitable global net zero future, lower-income and under-electrified countries must play a much bigger…