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Kismayo
- Country
- Somalia
- Population
- 180K
- Projects
- 1
- Last verified
- 2 August 2026
Kismayo, the commercial capital of Somalia's Jubaland region, has powered a resettlement neighbourhood for refugees returning from Kenya's Dadaab camp with a small solar-diesel mini-grid since 2018 — one piece of a much larger, still-unfinished national push to rebuild the city's main electricity grid.
All 1 project in Kismayo
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Compare with other cities
- 🇩🇪 Berlin: EUREF-Campus Micro Smart Grid Kismayo's 2018 mini-grid powers about 100 resettled households; Berlin's EUREF campus microgrid serves a corporate customer base instead.
- 🇲🇼 Lilongwe: eVax Cold Chain Guard — Digital Vaccine Cold-Chain Tracking Both are donor-funded pilots for one population — Kismayo's mini-grid for refugees, Lilongwe's cold-chain tracker for two districts.
- 🇺🇸 Anchorage: Railbelt Battery Storage & Fire Island Wind Integration Both are small solar-hybrid microgrids serving a defined population rather than a whole city's grid.
