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Konkola Copper Mines is working toward 300,000 tonnes of integrated copper production by 2031, from around 140,000 tonnes this financial year. CopperTech Metals, the US-domiciled vehicle Vedanta created for the asset in November 2025, has announced $1.5 billion of investment. The constraint underneath all of it is electricity.

Namibia, the DRC, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa, Mali and Burkina Faso have all banned the export of unprocessed minerals. Tunde Muritala Arisekola advises 54 African Union member states on minerals policy, and his argument is that the ban is the easy part.

NERSA registered 124 generation facilities between April and June, carrying 804MW and R20.18 billion of investment. Two wind facilities account for 568MW of that. The remaining 122 are solar and produce 236MW between them, most of them small and spread across municipal networks.

Two 150MW units have been under construction at Sinazongwe since August 2024, financed largely by Zambian pension money and contracted to ZESCO in full. Once running, Maamba Energy would supply around 18% of national generating capacity, with a 100MW solar plant alongside taking the site to 700MW.

Abubakar Shuaibu founded Astound Power after five years campaigning on energy access in Nigeria. His minigrid projects break ground before the year ends, with two state governments holding equity, and one of them built around an agricultural cluster.

ASPIRE runs from February 2026 to January 2030 on EUR 5.5 million of European Union funding, and none of it builds generation. The three outcomes are institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks, energy efficiency, and renewable access. It arrives a month before Botswana’s first utility-scale solar plant secured $100 million from a commercial bank.

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.