Kelly Koigi, Talent Acquisition Lead, Allied Talent Partners

Mission 300 aims to connect 300 million people by 2030, but turning national plans into delivery takes specialist expertise, fast. This piece sets out how RF Catalytic Capital and Allied Talent Partners are building an expert roster facility to get niche technical talent to governments at the moment they need it.

Africa's energy sector needs hundreds of thousands more engineers, financiers and project managers. It also needs better ways to reach the experienced professionals already available. Zandile Hlatywayo of Allied Talent Partners on why a network of 12,000 independent specialists matters as much as the long-term pipeline.

Exxaro will add a 100MW battery and a second phase at Lephalale, as Cennergi targets almost 1,000MW of renewables by the end of 2027 and 1,600MW by 2030.

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.

A $50 million green bond listed in London has taken d.light's pay-as-you-go receivables platform past $1 billion, the first public bond of its kind in African off-grid solar.

The Ethiopia to Kenya to Tanzania Electricity Highway is in trial operation at 2,000MW as the southern and eastern power pools move towards synchronisation by year end.

The World Bank has approved $265 million for Morocco's Ifahsa pumped hydropower storage project, co-financed by the AfDB and implemented by ONEE.

South Africa has no grid-connected gas-to-power at all, and two supply deadlines arriving in 2030. Standard Bank's gas sector lead sets out how two LNG import terminals, four bids submitted in May and the 6GW the IRP wants built could change that, and what the whole programme might cost.