Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. In regards to Affordable and Clean energy, it matters because around the world 1.3 million people live without access to electricity. These numbers are focused in Africa where 620 million people can not get affordable,

This goal has to do with all things infrastructure. It is crucial to achieving sustainable development and empowering communities in many countries. It also most directly wants to "Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation" (UN Sustainable Developme

Solar energy is another type of energy that is being developed in Uganda. Uganda has almost constant sunlight all year round making it a wonderful candidate to use solar power. However, many people don’t know that much about it making its impact in Uganda still very small since its introduction. How

Solar panels take the energy from the sun and convert that light energy into usable clean forms of energy. There are 3 types of solar technologies, with photovoltaics being the most commonly used and most useful in regard to this topic. Within the solar panel there are silicon N and P sheets that ar

This goal strives to "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". With climate change affecting every country on Earth we need people stepping up to start reducing their impact. By providing solar panels instead of lamps etc. it is one way we can reduce emissions at their root. See

The many people i n the dark lacking energy access is greatly prohibiting global success and really needs to be solved. The efforts to solve this problem are driven by UN SDG 7, and in order to accomplish this a large shift in global finance would need to happen. This situation looks even more despe

Solar panels provide the ideal way to bring light to Africa because they are cheap, sustabable, and easy to use. However, some see a problem with them. In Uganda there is currently a lack of education around solar technologies which leads to them not being used and not being taken to their full pote

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