Sub-Saharan Africa isn't really known for its abundance of spare power plants. Connecting grids is an easy way to make the overall system more robust. It also m

Sub-Saharan Africa isn't really known for its abundance of spare power plants. Connecting grids is an easy way to make the overall system more robust. It also makes future projects to increase energy production capacity less economically risky, and international cooperation can be geopolitically stabilizing. There's a reason that North America and Europe built continent-scale power grids.