Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources

The Rural Electrification Agency commissions a 3MW solar hybrid plant at Yakubu Gowon University in Abuja on Wednesday 16 September, under Phase II of the Energizing Education Programme and with support from the World Bank Group. Joseph Tegbe, Minister of Power, performs the commissioning.

TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanné is anchoring East African infrastructure spending in the Albertine rift basin, where commercial production is now targeted for June 2027. As green funding mandates squeeze Western commercial syndicates, the development relies on a 1,443km heated artery to bring its newly branded "Pearl Sweet" crude to market via Vitol.

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.

Six pilot installations under CICSA Phase I put clean captive power into hospitals and cold storage across Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. UNEP’s Carolina Merighi and the Frankfurt School’s Yamini Jain tell ENN what they want to see in the applications now the call is open across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the […]

Itimpi II went into service at Kitwe in May at a cost of $125.8 million, funded entirely from Copperbelt Energy Corporation's $200 million green bond. It is the largest operational solar plant in Zambia, and it was built without a sovereign guarantee standing behind the paper.

Long-term LNG contracts with Russian suppliers become prohibited across the European Union from January 2027, with long-term pipeline contracts ending later that year. African gas production sits closer to European ports than any alternative, and roughly 93 million tonnes a year of new global capacity is arriving at the same time.

Blessing Unoka won the Pan-African Low Carbon Track at the Future of Energy Conference Innovation Challenge in Accra. Speaking to ENN, the Sambal Enterprise founder describes processing soya milk and maize flour at a Lagos farm gate on solar and battery storage, sending the waste to a biodigester, and returning the fertiliser to the farmers she buys from.

Jasmin Pillay joined Seriti Green as Chief People Officer a month ago, holding enterprise and social development alongside the internal organisation. Speaking to ENN, she argues that the just energy transition in Mpumalanga rests on communities participating in it rather than receiving it, and that the capabilities the projects need already exist locally.