Google is investing twelve million dollars to help towards a solar energy project in Africa.  This is there first time investing money in Africa and these twelve million dollars are just a portion of the two hundred sixty million dollars that will eventually be invested.  The name of this project is the Jasper Power Project, which will be an advanced photovoltaic plant capable of generating 96 MW of clean energy for residents of South Africa. The goal of the project is not only to create renewable energy for the country but also to help provide long-term jobs and to help create economic opportunity.  By beginning this in South Africa, they will set an example for the rest of the continent eventually leading to all of Africa to be a greener continent.

Many people will benefit from this new energy project.  The people of Africa will be able to use these energy sources to fuel the electricity in their homes, which will run stoves, lights, internet, etc.  Therefore, it will help feed the people, and even help educate them.  With the help of the internet, they will have easier access to many resources they did not necessarily have before, thus eventually rising the percentage of literate people in the continent.  Once this percentage rises, they will soon be able to get jobs, which will help better provide for their families.  Once they have earned long-term jobs, this will eventually lead to lowering the percentage of people living below the line of poverty.

This new energy source that is being formed in Africa will not only benefit the Africans, but it will also benefit the people who have invested their money in to it.  Although two hundred sixty million dollars seems like a lot to invest, they will probably make a much larger profit. Once the Jasper Power Project has begun, it will eventually spread across Africa and then in to different countries causing Google to profit more and more.

Entrepreneurs are very important to economy.  Without new ideas, our economy would not grow.  Innovations, such as creating power projects to help create and conserve energy promote growth in many ways.  They solve many problems we are currently facing such as unemployment and education. If many of the things that were invented scores ago would have never been created, where would we be today?  I’m not exactly sure, and I’m not certain I would like to find out!