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Madalitso Chimpeni has been building wind turbines in Malawi for three years. The grant he won through the Youth Energy Summit bought the generators, paid the machinists and gave him room to get it wrong. The turbines are fabricated and waiting for installation, and 120 households are the target.

The Youth Sustainable Development Network and the Africa Minigrid Developers Association will run four to six week remote placements from later this year, across regulatory coordination, research, sector support and access to capital. Whether it grows depends on an evaluation neither organisation has run yet.

Pele Green Energy began as a drive to transform young South Africans' lives, with energy as the conduit. Speaking to ENN at AEF, Jolene Shaw of Knowledge Pele shares what nearly sixteen years has taught her, and why young entrepreneurs should find their place across the whole energy value chain.

In October, Black History Month is celebrated in the United Kingdom, and in February, it is celebrated in the United States. Black History is not confined to a single month: it encompasses the past, present, and future, shaping the world we live in today. Through literature, stories, and lived experiences, we gain insight into resilience, creativity, and the pursuit of justice.  In this […]

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority and Africa50 have completed the commercial launch of the $300 million Nigeria Distributed Renewable Energy Fund at the United Nations General Assembly. Backed by the World Bank Group as a founding partner, the vehicle deploys equity into domestic developers to scale mini-grids and commercial solar infrastructure.

The provincial administrations of the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape have executed a formal cooperative memorandum to eliminate structural permitting friction across the 940 MW Koruson clean energy corridor. The pact overrides municipal boundaries to create South Africa's first unified administrative zone for trans-boundary private utility grids

The African Development Bank Group has allocated $20 million in reimbursable grants to advance utility-scale green hydrogen projects. The financing facility deployed through the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa targets early-stage infrastructure engineering across four national corridors.

Energy Minister El Hadji Abdourahmane Diouf has opened a competitive upstream bidding round covering 109 blocks to force domestic gas-to-power allocations. The strategy marks an abrupt regulatory turn from offshore export terminal infrastructure toward local industrial consumption mandates.