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Ramokgopa has set out 105GW of new generation and 14,500km of transmission, and wants the towers, transformers and cables built by South African manufacturers

The Africa Energy Bank took possession of its Abuja headquarters in February 2026 and is targeting September to begin lending, with $200 billion in midstream needs in view.

Hichilema has commissioned Chisamba Phase II, taking the complex to 200MW, while Afrobarometer finds 47% of Zambian homes already sourcing power outside the ZESCO grid.

The Youth Sustainable Development Network has signed a clean energy MoU with Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency, witnessed by power minister Joseph Tegbe, focused on productive use.

Cape Town has approved two hyperscale data centres drawing around 174MW once running, among the largest new loads to reach an African grid. As computing spreads, AI’s growth is becoming a question for the power sector as much as for the technology industry.

Women were 9% of Africa Energy Forum delegates in 2012 and 37% of nearly 3,500 this year, close to 1,300. Ogunbiyi, Webber and Graham-Maré on the sector they help lead.

Sun King and the Rural Electrification Agency signed their manufacturing agreement last October, witnessed by Vice President Kashim Shettima, and the pieces have kept arriving since, financing in April and production targeted before the end of 2026. Behind it sit 12,000 jobs already created and monthly sales up from 3,000 to 75,000 in five years.

GOGLA’s annual general meeting ran alongside June’s Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town. The global off-grid solar association has published what it is carrying forward from the event. Durability is to stand beside connection counts as the measure that matters, backed by calls for governance over subsidy design and the shared data that would let investors price the market.

Ignite has announced a second IFC mandate and $233 million in financing agreed across the first half of the year, while IFC equity reached CrossBoundary Access in June and Nigerian developers signed an $83 million IFC-backed programme in April. Off-grid electrification’s capital is arriving as repeatable structures, deal by deal

An estimated $8.6 trillion of what lies under African ground is unmined, much of it stranded without the transport and power to move it. At AEF, the Energy for Growth Hub’s Gyude Moore, AFC’s Ziyanda Mpakama and Transnet’s Andile Sangqu set out the case for shared, open-access routes serving more than one mine.