Financial Insights Zambia

Advisers are due within weeks to open negotiations with the banks and funders holding Eskom's high-voltage assets as security. Valuation and the treatment of municipal debt sit beside that conversation, and Eskom itself has asked that any transfer wait until risks to its finances are addressed.

KETRACO has sent four privately initiated transmission proposals worth up to Ksh65bn to the PPP Directorate, testing the Act's own insolvency provisions.

Five contractors have twelve months to build a 2MW installation with 4MWh of storage in each of 156 constituencies, at a stated ZMW 4.3bn. Permanent Secretary Nicholas Phiri has described the ownership stake as a revenue stream for the local authorities hosting them.

Nextier and The Electricity Hub both research the Nigerian power and policy landscape and publish through their own podcasts and platforms. Their involvement around the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in November puts domestic analysis alongside the international coverage a summit of this kind usually attracts.

UNEP and the Frankfurt School opened applications on 20 July under the second phase of a programme built around commercial and industrial power users. The window closes on 20 September, and applicants must reach implementation within 18 months, which sets the bar at projects already close to construction.

The AfDB has committed €200 million as lead arranger on an €833 million hydrodesulfurisation complex at SIR in Abidjan, due for commissioning in 2029.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority manages the country's sovereign wealth across three ring-fenced funds and has built a platform for distributed renewable energy in the Nigerian market. Its role matters to a sector where the shortage is rarely projects and almost always the capital willing to take early risk.

EnergyNet has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Youth Sustainable Development Network to deliver the youth programme running alongside the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in Abuja. The Expo was launched at the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development on 6 August, with four ministries represented.