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The Electricity Hub (TEH) is a Nigeria-based digital media organisation focusing on the power and energy sector. They provide news, analysis, podcasts and events centred on electricity access, energy transition and the African power landscape.

TEH is part of the Nextier Group, a privately-owned firm, and uses multiple platforms to engage stakeholders across the energy sector.

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Interviews

Clean captive energy in Africa, what UNEP learned from six CICSA pilots

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 […]
Solar

Copperbelt Energy financed 136MW at Itimpi on its own bond, without a state guarantee

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.
Gas

Europe closes its Russian gas contracts by 2027 and African suppliers are the nearest replacement

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.
Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: Two days without mains power in Lagos and Sambal’s dehydrators kept running

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.
Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: Seriti Green’s Jasmin Pillay on the just energy transition in Mpumalanga

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.
Mining & Minerals

Glencore’s DRC mines now prioritise copper as cobalt exports are capped

Glencore's DRC cobalt output fell 39% in the first quarter of 2026 while its copper production rose 19%, a deliberate reordering under an export quota system capping Congolese cobalt shipments at 96,600 tonnes a year until at least the end of 2027.
News

Korhogo’s 66MW solar plant was funded without a euro of foreign capital

The Africa Finance Corporation disbursed €43 million in April under the Poro Power Green Bond, the first project finance green bond in Côte d'Ivoire and across the West African Economic and Monetary Union. It forms part of a €65 million facility structured in euros and CFA francs, funding a 66MW solar plant at Korhogo.
Regional

Morocco adds a French route to three European power links already in negotiation 

France opened a call for expressions of interest in a direct Morocco interconnection on 16 July, six days before Reuters reported the $30 billion German subsea link had stalled. With a second Spanish link planned and a Portuguese one under study, Rabat is now negotiating four routes into Europe's electricity market at once. 

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