Renewable energy capacity target
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300 billionwatts
Africa · 2030
BNEF projects renewable energy capacity target in the Africa at 300 billion watts in 2030.
- Publisher
- BNEF
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- Africa Power Transition Factbook 2024
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The African Union wants to bring 300GW of renewables online by 2030, which will require immediate quadrupling of capacity deployment rates.
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- APA
- BloombergNEF. (2030). Climate Week and COP Public Research. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7
- MLA
- BloombergNEF. "Climate Week and COP Public Research." 2030, https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7.
- Chicago
- BloombergNEF. "Climate Week and COP Public Research." 2030. https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7.
- BibTeX
- @misc{bnef2030renewable6hm8n7, author = {{BloombergNEF}}, title = {Climate Week and COP Public Research}, year = {2030}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7}, note = {Original source: https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- BloombergNEF · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Industry & Research
- Report
- Climate Week and COP Public Research
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Africa Power Transition Factbook 2024
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7