Emily Bertollini

Assistant Producer, EnergyNet

Emily joined EnergyNet in October 2025 as an Assistant Producer. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Cooperation and Development and a Master’s in European Policies & Economic Governance. Her passion for the energy sector and sustainability is reflected throughout her academic and professional journey, which includes research roles at think tanks and diplomatic experience as a trainee at the Italian Embassy in Santiago de Chile & Italian Council of Ministers.

Originally from Rome (Italy), Emily relocated to her dream city, London, in July 2025. Her studies and work have also taken her across the US, Belgium, and Chile, giving her a truly international outlook.

Outside of work, Emily enjoys traveling, reading psychological thrillers on her Kindle, and exploring new cuisines. She loves long walks through London’s wonderful parks, often pausing for a bit of duck watching along the way. She also really enjoys a quiet night in.

Latest news

Zambia and Zimbabwe Throw Open Their Energy Sectors as Private Capital Rushes to Light Millions

Mozel Chimuka, Agora Village, AfricaWorks | LUSAKA, 27 November 2025 — Nearly ten million Zambians have never switched on a light in their own homes. Across the border, Zimbabwe’s national utility connects 50,000 households per year; its new binding commitment demands 320,000. Both nations have now staked billions on pledges to achieve universal electricity access […]

Unlock the Billion Dollar Vault Hidden Inside Zimbabwe’s Energy Liberalisation

Mozel Chimuka, Agora Village, AfricaWorks | LUSAKA, 27 November 2025 — Zimbabwe currently generates significantly less electricity than required to keep basic lights on, yet the government audaciously demands that private investors triple available capacity within six short years to feed a voracious mining beast that never sleeps. This paradoxical mandate requires the state to […]

Resurrecting the Sleeping Giant of Batoka Gorge to Banish the Darkness Forever

Mozel Chimuka, Agora Village, AfricaWorks | LUSAKA, 27 November 2025 —Seven gigawatts of raw power roar uselessly through the deep gorges separating Zambia and Zimbabwe while the entire Southern African region starves for the very energy that is currently crashing against the rocks and dissipating into the mist. It is a geopolitical tragedy of wasted […]

Southern Africa

Copper Dreams and Power Schemes Racing to Electrify Africa

Jeannette Ilunga, Africa Works, LUSAKA | Friday 28 November, 2025 — Five years from now, Southern Africa’s energy market will look nothing like it does today. Zambia’s copper ambitions demand 1,500 MW of new capacity. Tanzania has a strategic surplus of power that cannot reach major markets like Zambia and Kenya because vital cross-border interconnectors […]

Why Angry Voters Could Destroy Southern Africa’s Energy Trading Market

Jeannette Ilunga, Africa Works, LUSAKA | Friday 28 November, 2025 — The energy trading market in Southern Africa is under threat, not from technical failure or financial collapse, but from politics and perception. Public sentiment has turned hostile toward traders who are seen as profiting from crisis without owning assets or building infrastructure. Politicians respond […]

Mining & Minerals

Wärtsilä renews O&M agreement to support power reliability at Mauritanian gold mine

Technology group Wärtsilä has renewed its operation and maintenance agreement with Tasiast Mauritanie Limited S.A., a subsidiary of Canada’s Kinross Gold Corporation, extending its role at the Mauritanian gold mine for a further three years. The agreement, booked in the second quarter of 2025, will ensure the continued reliable and safe operation of the site’s […]

How Market Mechanics Are Destroying the Middleman Myth

Jeannette Ilunga, Africa Works, LUSAKA | Friday 28 November, 2025 — Energy traders are not middlemen extracting rent from desperate utilities. They are aggregators performing functions that no single entity in Southern Africa’s fragmented power markets can manage alone—guaranteeing supply when generation fails, guaranteeing payment when utilities default, and balancing grids that were never designed […]

MCA delivers Africa’s largest off-grid renewable energy system in Angola

The Cazombo Photovoltaic Park in Angola, which will supply green energy to more than 136,000 people, has a production capacity of 25.40 MWp and batteries with a storage capacity of 75.26 MWh MCA has just energised Africa’s largest off-grid renewable energy photovoltaic park in Angola. This is the country’s first autonomous (off-grid) system with a […]