YES! 2023: Daniel Aryee, Color Your Space, on entrepreneurship and careers in energy

ENGIE Energy Access, Africa’s leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) and mini-grid solutions provider, has officially commenced the construction of 15 solar mini-grids in Zambia’s Eastern Province. This initiative is a crucial part of the transformative Increase Access to Electricity and Renewable Energy Production (IAEREP) programme, funded by the 11th European Development Fund and the European Union. By […]

With green hydrogen seen as a renewable resource that’s increasingly vital for a sustainable future, Africa is becoming a frontrunner in its production.  In advance of TECS24, Rumaitha Al Busaidi, Business Development Manager at Hydrom, talked to EnergyNet about Oman’s positioning as a green energy hub, and the learnings to be shared with other African […]

A seven-year Green Climate Fund programme will reach 225,000 people in Mozambique through competitively procured solar mini-grids and results-based payments for productive-use equipment.

Zimplats commissioned 35MW at Selous in August 2024 and has a 45MW second phase under construction at a cost of US$54 million. First Quantum's Sentinel mine, Eureka's gold mine, Sable Chemicals and Zambia Sugar appear alongside it on the Zimbabwe-Zambia programme as companies funding their own power.

The South African Reserve Bank has linked structural macroeconomic strains to a 65 per cent decline in national petroleum refining operations. As processing assets idle, central bank governors trace an incremental R76 billion fuel import cost that exposes localised distribution networks to volatile global maritime product channels.

Togo is preparing to procure a 120MW dual-fuel plant at the Lomé Thermal Power Plant site, running mainly on natural gas, with World Bank support under its Mission 300 energy compact. The selection process is expected to launch in the fourth quarter, with peak demand growing about 10% a year.

Zambia’s Rural Electrification Authority opened the call for proposals on 15 October for its Results-Based Financing Facility under the World Bank-backed ASCENT Zambia programme, which pays private providers once their solar home systems and clean cooking appliances have been independently verified, with targets of 120,000 and 60,000 households.

Afreximbank and the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation formally established the Africa Energy Bank at its inaugural general meeting in Abuja on 31 October, appointing Helmy Ghazi as its first president and constituting a board for a lender that will finance the energy value chain from exploration to distribution.