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The African Union Commission has inaugurated the High-Level Technical Oversight Committee for the African Single Electricity Market after a three-day session in Addis Ababa. Backed by regional power pools and development finance institutions, the structural body transitions the continental energy master plan from political architecture toward cross-border market rules.

Guinea signed three loan agreements worth €269.5 million with the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development in Conakry on 10 September, covering health, transport and energy. The country already sells 1,174GWh a year into Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau under bilateral contracts.

Ghana has appointed a transaction adviser to procure concessionaires for the Electricity Company of Ghana, with awards expected by June 2027, according to the IMF’s latest review. The state keeps ownership of the network, and the private role is billing, metering and revenue collection rather than a sale.

ZESA’s acting chief executive Cletus Nyachowe told Parliament in May that private developers had 635MW under construction and another 730MW closing, enough for 1,365MW of new capacity by December 2026 and an end to imports a year later. The national compact sets out what still has to be built.

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company has launched a renewable energy independent power producer procurement initiative. The program invites unsolicited private infrastructure capital to fast-track the deployment of 500MW of wind and 463MW of solar photovoltaic capacity to insulate the national grid from climate-driven generation deficits.

Egypt approved Kemet’s land agreements in February for 2,000MW of solar and a 2,000MWh battery at Nag Hammadi, with the power bought in local currency. By April the state buyer had signed for four Kemet schemes due in 2027, a different model from the dollar contract behind Scatec’s Obelisk.

Patrick Okigbo III, Founder and Principal Partner of the Abuja advisory firm Nextier, once advised the Presidency on reforming Nigeria’s electricity industry. Speaking to ENN, he argues that investors often misread Nigeria as a single market, and that the clearest sign the reforms since 2023 have worked will be investors coming back a second time.

The National Geographic Society and De Beers Group have renewed their Okavango Eternal partnership for another five years, announced in New York on 24 September. Botswana’s president and ministers from Angola and Namibia used the occasion to form an alliance across a basin whose water supplies more than a million people.

Zimplats commissioned 35MW at Selous in August 2024 and has a 45MW second phase under construction at a cost of US$54 million. First Quantum’s Sentinel mine, Eureka’s gold mine, Sable Chemicals and Zambia Sugar appear alongside it on the Zimbabwe-Zambia programme as companies funding their own power.

The African Development Bank’s board approved a crisis framework on 1 September worth up to $5.1 billion, raising the Bank Group’s 2026 lending target to about $12.7 billion. It runs for a year and is aimed at countries absorbing higher prices for imported energy and fertiliser as trade routes are disrupted.