{"id":21950,"date":"2025-12-20T17:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/12\/20\/are-solar-panels-from-china-booming-africas-energy-transition\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:49:53","slug":"are-solar-panels-from-china-booming-africas-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/2025\/12\/20\/are-solar-panels-from-china-booming-africas-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Are solar panels from China booming Africa&#8217;s energy transition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D9Akw8AOZhI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For years, critics in Washington and Brussels have warned about China producing &#8220;too many&#8221; solar panels. But could this so-called &#8220;overcapacity&#8221; actually be the key to solving Africa&#8217;s energy crisis?<\/p>\n<p>A recent report by global energy think tank Ember shows that Africa\u2019s imports of Chinese solar panels surged by 60% in the year leading up to June, marking the first signs of a solar take-off across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao Ying speaks with Dave Jones, co-founder of Ember and the author of this report, to explore the potential for solar energy to transform Africa&#8217;s energy landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, critics in Washington and Brussels have warned about China producing &#8220;too many&#8221; solar panels. But could this so-called &#8220;overcapacity&#8221; actually be the key to solving Africa&#8217;s energy crisis? A recent report by global energy think tank Ember shows that Africa\u2019s imports of Chinese solar panels surged by 60% in the year leading up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8553,"featured_media":21951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1679,24130,71001,71000,3933,3936,70999,69048,71002,2905],"tags":[1658,24129,70997,70996,3913,3916,70995,69016,70998,2895],"class_list":["post-21950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cgtn","category-cgtn-live","category-cgtn-news","category-china","category-china-news","category-chinese-news","category-current-news","category-live-cgtn","category-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-cgtn","tag-cgtn-live","tag-cgtn-news","tag-china","tag-china-news","tag-chinese-news","tag-current-news","tag-live-cgtn","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/youtubomatic-test\/demoa26f6b3a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}