Watts Your Impact?
Watts Your Impact?
Podcast Description
Watts your Impact is a podcast dedicated to spotlighting leaders and changemakers who are driving impact across various industries.
Our focus is on sharing authentic stories, innovative ideas, and practical lessons to inspire and empower a growing community of listeners passionate about making a difference.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of entrepreneurship, impact investing, and innovative solutions within different sectors. Episodes explore topics such as redefining fashion in Nigeria with Jidechukwu Nwanya's Garm Island, utilizing finance for social change with Aishat Raji, and the food-tech revolution in Africa led by Tosin Onafuye of 500Chow. Each episode emphasizes personal journeys and actionable lessons for aspiring changemakers.
Watts Your Impact is a podcast amplifying the stories of the people shaping Africa’s energy future. Through honest, unscripted conversations with founders, executives, investors, engineers, and policymakers, we make energy conversations more human, accessible, and relatable – helping a growing community of listeners understand not just the industry, but the people building it. One conversation, one impact.
Beyond Access: The Energy Problem We Keep Ignoring
What if the real energy challenge isn't access, but what people can actually do with that access?
On this episode of Watts Your Impact, we sit down with Folawiyo Aminu, Senior Associate at RMI, renewable energy project developer, Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage (BESS) engineer, and project manager, to unpack one of the biggest misconceptions about energy access.
From energy poverty to productive energy use, Folawiyo explains why meaningful progress goes beyond connecting homes to electricity—and how the right energy solutions can unlock economic growth, create jobs, and improve livelihoods across communities.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Why access to electricity is only the first step
• The danger of scaling before solving the right problems
• How renewable energy transforms livelihoods and local economies
• Why small, decentralized energy solutions create lasting impact
• The role of innovation, policy, and leadership in accelerating sustainable energy access
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