/ Energy Institute Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/uc-davis-help-equip-africans-meet-energy-challenges <p>Evelyn Mugisha grew up in rural Uganda where, for most people, there still is no power to light the night. But with eyes wide open, she’s dreaming of extending electricity to those rural areas.</p> <p>She and 24 other young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa — where two out of three people lack access to electricity — have come to the University of California, Davis, to equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.</p> June 19, 2017 - 9:21am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-help-equip-africans-meet-energy-challenges /news/uc-davis-energy-institute-helps-light-way-africa <p>Sarah Mulwah of Botswana has been an environmental consultant and a marketing manager for a nature reserve where she helped track white rhinos for a conservation project.</p> <p>But a six-week <a href="/search/news/african">energy institute at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis</a> is helping her blaze a trail for a new endeavor —&nbsp;setting up a lending library of solar lanterns for rural schoolchildren whose families are too poor to connect to the power grid.</p> July 26, 2016 - 4:17pm Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-energy-institute-helps-light-way-africa /news/uc-davis-be-living-lab-young-african-leaders-tackling-energy-issues <p>Their work in Africa ranges from placing solar lanterns in humble huts to advising the leadership of South Africa’s national power utility.</p> <p>But over the next six weeks, 25 young African leaders will be at the University of California, Davis, to leverage the campus’s&nbsp;energy expertise and better equip themselves to tackle the enormous energy challenges on their continent.</p> June 17, 2016 - 11:33am Julia Ann Easley /news/uc-davis-be-living-lab-young-african-leaders-tackling-energy-issues