Andrew Herscowitz, CEO, Mission 300 Accelerator: WA-ECS 2024

SUMMARY OF THE SESSION UNDER THE SAME TITLE THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE POWERING AFRICA SUMMIT (PAS), IN WASHINGTON DC, ON MARCH 2022. In the summer of 2014, there was a massive electrical power outage in Egypt. The electricity deficit in Egypt led the country to set a new strategy for electricity—resolving the lack of […]

June 2025 | Africa Energy Forum Mission 300’s ambitious drive to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030 took on new urgency as development leaders warned they are in “a race against time” to deliver economic transformation alongside energy access. The session, moderated by GEAPP’s Chianda Njogu, revealed how the initiative is fundamentally reshaping […]

Three 35MW plants at the field north of Nakuru will together bring 105MW to the national grid, financed by the African Development Bank alongside the IFC. Kenya intends to almost double its installed steam generation by 2030, under Pillar I of its Mission 300 energy compact.

Kenya Power has started work on a KSh900 million transmission line to connect Lodwar to the national grid, decommissioning a weather-vulnerable diesel generator facility that costs the utility the same amount to run annually.

Camco built REPP 2 expecting commercial investors in the debt tranche and development finance institutions in the equity. Speaking to ENN, Fund Director Benjamin Hugues says the opposite happened within the equity, and puts it down to defence spending shrinking the development finance available and Western governments choosing returnable capital over grants.

Vincenzia Leitich is Executive Vice President for Power and Renewables, Client Coverage at Standard Bank. Across two episodes of the Let's Talk Energy Podcast she told ENN how open access has turned mining into an anchor customer for African renewables, and why transmission rather than capital is now the binding constraint.

ReconAfrica holds licenses covering 13 million contiguous acres across the Kavango Basin, where successful flow testing at the Kavango West 1X well has recorded the first onshore hydrocarbon recovery in Namibian history. The commercial transition pits state-backed financial targets against the protections of the Okavango Delta watershed.

British International Investment and Alexforbes each put R500 million into the Revego Africa Energy Fund in January, taking it to R3 billion. BII conditionally approved a further R250 million, subject to being matched locally. Speaking to ENN, Revego's Chief Investment Officer Ziyaad Sarang says that match is still open.