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Camden, Grootvlei, Hendrina, Arnot and Kriel hold emissions exemptions to 31 March 2030. Eskom will say by the end of September whether they shut, repower or run on, and chief executive Dan Marokane has said the answer turns on new capacity being contractually secured. The Energy Council of South Africa leads the work on what follows 2030.

Ras Shokeir will cover around 143 square kilometres of Egypt’s Red Sea Governorate, and the power purchase agreement with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company runs for twenty-five years. It is the third agreement between EETC and the Infinity Power and Hassan Allam Utilities consortium since November 2025.

A 10% duty on copper concentrate exports was suspended in August 2025 and the waiver has been extended to the end of this month. It currently covers 271,742 tonnes across six producers, with Mopani holding the largest quota at 100,000 tonnes. The duty is intended to favour domestic processing.

Umeme handed 2.3 million customers to the state in March 2025, closing the first private distribution concession in anglophone Africa. Uganda’s regulator has held tariffs flat and approved substation investment across six districts. The compensation figure that sets the utility’s asset base remains contested.

Blessing Unoka’s Sambal Enterprise runs a solar-powered processing hub with an integrated biodigester, producing five certified food lines with no diesel and no grid connection. It employs 50 women, supplies more than 200 smallholder farmers and took first place at the AfroHackathon in Accra on 25 and 26 August.

More than 1,700 jobs have been created across Seriti Green’s projects, and the company has appointed Jasmin Pillay as Chief People Officer with a remit covering enterprise and social development alongside organisational capability. In Mpumalanga, where livelihoods have run through the coal value chain, who gets the work is the measure that matters.

Statutory Instrument 128 of 2026 sets the terms on which a company other than ZETDC may sell electricity in Zimbabwe. Licences run twenty-five years, are awarded by competitive bidding, and cap tariffs at the state utility’s approved rates. No private operator has yet been named as an applicant.

Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has said Senegal stops importing natural gas this year, replaced by domestic output from Sangomar and Greater Tortue Ahmeyim. Gas would then carry three quarters of installed capacity. Neither Senelec nor the regulator has published a tariff position for the period after imports stop.

The Finance Ministry has engaged an adviser to structure private participation in the Electricity Company of Ghana and NEDCo, with operators expected from early 2027. General Secretary Timothy Nyame has objected on behalf of the Public Utilities Workers Union. ECG’s distribution losses have run at three to four times international best practice.

The Federal Government carried more than half of Nigeria’s generation costs in the first quarter, with tariffs frozen at July 2024 rates. Power Minister Joseph Tegbe has said subsidy payments will be phased out from next year, though neither the date nor the consumer protection measures have been published.