Léa Giroux, Head of Business Development, ENGIE South Africa

CONTINUOUS ENGAGEMENT BY STAKEHOLDERS CRUCIAL IN ENSURING ENERGY SECTOR IS SUSTAINABLE WHILE ALSO MANAGING SOCIAL IMPACTS OF SHIFT – AN ARTICLE CO-WRITTEN BY MATT ASH, TINA COSTAS, JAMES ROSS AND KELSEY PAILMAN. While there has been steady progress in the global transition from economies running on fossil fuels to sustainable energy development since the establishment […]

Director Woman published its 2026 cohort on 12 August, fifty-four founders and executives from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana and Lesotho. Among them are the State Diamond Trader's chief executive, a steel fabricator in Kuruman, a Mpumalanga workshop owner preparing to supply the mining sector, and three founders turning waste and climate literacy into enterprises.

Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Africa Energy Yearbook, produced in partnership with African Business Magazine and the 25th annual Africa Energy Forum, held in Nairobi. As a report from McKinsey Reimagining economic growth in Africa says, Africa has the human capital and natural resources to accelerate productivity and reimagine its economic growth, which […]

Le Sommet sur la coopération énergétique en Afrique de l’Ouest, qui s’est tenu à Lomé du 3 au 5 décembre 2024, a réuni des gouvernementaux et des leaders mondiaux pour trois jours de discussions et de débats qui ont abordé les défis du développement de projets dans la région de la CEDEAO et promu la croissance […]

Standard Bank's Rentia van Tonder on grid expansion, transmission and the wholesale energy market as South Africa's electricity sector decentralises, ahead of AEF 2026.

More than 1,700 jobs have been created across Seriti Green's projects, and the company has appointed Jasmin Pillay as Chief People Officer with a remit covering enterprise and social development alongside organisational capability. In Mpumalanga, where livelihoods have run through the coal value chain, who gets the work is the measure that matters.

SolarAfrica broke ground at SunCentral in June 2024 and has now closed financing on all three facilities in a 342MW first phase between Hanover and De Aar. The R1.35 billion transmission substation built alongside them is what allows a single site to sell to many buyers rather than one.

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.