#8: Energy Changes Everything: Mini-Grids, Open Source, and the Near Future with John Kidenda
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What you’ll hear in this episode:
- John’s Kenya-to-Austin journey: national schools, Alliance High, early web days, UT, and Harvard MPA/ID
- The mentor chain that changed John’s life (Rick; African Leadership Bridge) and why mentors who “want you to win” matter
- Building clean-energy mini-grids (PowerGen) serving ~250k people—and what reliable power unlocks
- A data-driven case for bottom-up solar across Africa and why it’s accelerating without central coordination
- Energy as the true base layer: how cheap energy collapses costs for water…
The skinny
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