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Nextier and The Electricity Hub both research the Nigerian power and policy landscape and publish through their own podcasts and platforms. Their involvement around the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in November puts domestic analysis alongside the international coverage a summit of this kind usually attracts.

UNEP and the Frankfurt School opened applications on 20 July under the second phase of a programme built around commercial and industrial power users. The window closes on 20 September, and applicants must reach implementation within 18 months, which sets the bar at projects already close to construction.

The AfDB has committed €200 million as lead arranger on an €833 million hydrodesulfurisation complex at SIR in Abidjan, due for commissioning in 2029.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority manages the country’s sovereign wealth across three ring-fenced funds and has built a platform for distributed renewable energy in the Nigerian market. Its role matters to a sector where the shortage is rarely projects and almost always the capital willing to take early risk.

EnergyNet has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Youth Sustainable Development Network to deliver the youth programme running alongside the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in Abuja. The Expo was launched at the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development on 6 August, with four ministries represented.

The Solid Minerals Development Fund began awarding grants in July under a scheme running three streams, early-stage exploration, critical minerals and research. Executive Secretary Fatima Shinkafi has described it as a route to stronger geological data, the shortage that Nigeria’s own national exploration programme was set up to answer.

Prime Minister Nestor Ntahontuye opened the 17MW Mulembwe plant on 16 June, finishing a scheme that began with Jiji in June last year. The two run-of-river stations carry 49.5MW between them and are expected to produce 239GWh a year, evacuated to Bujumbura on 80km of new 110kV line.

NIWIMNRO has taken its work with women artisanal miners from three states to six since last summer, adding protective equipment, mobile medical visits and cooperative registration to the training programme it began with. It was recognised in Abuja on Thursday with EnergyNet’s Leadership Award.

The Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development launched the November expo with a commitment to stay involved through the preparatory period, naming three further ministries as deliberate participants and asking that the event be judged on what is delivered after it closes.

TotalEnergies has more than 4,000 workers back at Afungi with first cargoes due in 2029, Eni has approved Coral Norte, and UTM signed feed gas for Nigeria’s first indigenous floating plant this month. The agency has removed around 120 billion cubic metres from projected growth by the end of the decade.