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Lagos food processor wins Africa’s clean energy innovation challenge

1st September, 2026

Seriti Green passes 1,700 jobs as it builds out its renewables business

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.

Zimbabwe distribution licences open to private operators on 25-year terms

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.

Senegal ends gas imports in 2026 on a CFA140 billion annual saving

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.

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Lagos food processor wins Africa’s clean energy innovation challenge

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.

Seriti Green passes 1,700 jobs as it builds out its renewables business

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.

Zimbabwe distribution licences open to private operators on 25-year terms

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.

Senegal ends gas imports in 2026 on a CFA140 billion annual saving

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.

Ghana appoints a transaction adviser to bring private operators into ECG by 2027

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.

Nigeria electricity subsidy reaches N358bn in a quarter as removal moves to 2027

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.

Botswana solar project secures $100m to sell into the Southern African Power Pool

Botswana’s first utility-scale solar plant has its financing, and the electricity is destined for the regional market rather than the domestic one. Rand Merchant Bank underwrote the package on a pure market view into SAPP, where the regional deficit sits at around 4,200MW and is concentrated in Zambia and the DRC.

Renewable Energy

Two of three Angolan solar sites remain uncontracted under Masdar’s 500MW southern programme

The 150MW Quipungo project in Huila province was the first site signed under Project Royal Sable, in an agreement with the state transmission company in January. The remaining two sites have no offtake in place. Completed, the programme would reach around 300,000 homes. Masdar has contracted one of the three sites in Project Royal Sable, […]

Malawi’s first utility-scale battery should start cutting load shedding this half of the year

ESCOM switched on a 20MW and 40 megawatt hour system in Lilongwe in July, funded by a US$20 million grant. The utility had been curtailing renewable generation it had already produced and running diesel instead. William Kayipa says the arithmetic changes from here.

Renewable Energy

Kenya prepares a 100MW geothermal tender under rules that would charge for the steam

The Geothermal Development Company is readying a public-private partnership for the Paka field, with production slated to begin by 2028. Draft regulations published last year would introduce a royalty on geothermal steam and require community benefit-sharing in every licence application.

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Lagos food processor wins Africa’s clean energy innovation challenge

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.

Seriti Green passes 1,700 jobs as it builds out its renewables business

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.

Zimbabwe distribution licences open to private operators on 25-year terms

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.

Senegal ends gas imports in 2026 on a CFA140 billion annual saving

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.

Ghana appoints a transaction adviser to bring private operators into ECG by 2027

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.

Nigeria electricity subsidy reaches N358bn in a quarter as removal moves to 2027

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.

Botswana solar project secures $100m to sell into the Southern African Power Pool

Botswana’s first utility-scale solar plant has its financing, and the electricity is destined for the regional market rather than the domestic one. Rand Merchant Bank underwrote the package on a pure market view into SAPP, where the regional deficit sits at around 4,200MW and is concentrated in Zambia and the DRC.

Renewable Energy

Two of three Angolan solar sites remain uncontracted under Masdar’s 500MW southern programme

The 150MW Quipungo project in Huila province was the first site signed under Project Royal Sable, in an agreement with the state transmission company in January. The remaining two sites have no offtake in place. Completed, the programme would reach around 300,000 homes. Masdar has contracted one of the three sites in Project Royal Sable, […]

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