By Mary Alorh The global fight against poverty and energy challenges heavily depends on progress within Africa. Currently, approximately 600 million people in Africa lack access...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia plans to export about 100 megawatts of electricity to Tanzania via Kenya once the nations finalize a deal that will enable cross-border trade...
By Mike Muller A new round of angry exchanges has broken out between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). On September 1,...
For over a decade, Nigeria has struggled to significantly boost its national grid, adding just 760 megawatts (MW) over 11 years. In a striking comparison, the...
Bloomberg | Self-generation of electricity by South African businesses and households is likely to reduce rolling blackouts without compromising the state power utility’s business model, according...
Bloomberg | Uganda plans to identify potential partners in the coming year to develop East Africa’s first nuclear power plant, which may cost as much as...
Reuters | Sister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of her day in gum boots, white veil tucked under a builder’s hat, manning the micro hydroelectric plant she...
Bloomberg | Nigerian lawmakers have passed a constitutional reform bill that will allow state government’s supply electricity in Africa’s most populous country, breaking the monopoly of...
Bloomberg | Ethekwini, the South African municipality that includes the port city of Durban, plans to seek initial proposals for the construction of 400 megawatts (MW)...
By Kate Douglas Two out of three people in sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. The Africa Progress Panel estimates that power shortages diminish the continent’s growth...
Ethiopia on Tuesday received a $250 million dollar loan from the World Bank to finance the implementation of a competitiveness and job creation project in the...
The United States has committed itself to attracting investment and aiding several African countries in reducing their electricity deficit. “Power Africa is designed to catalyze new...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 1 billion dollar loan for Angola to help develop its war-ravaged electricity network. The loan will also...
Nigeria needs approximately $35 billion to get to the government target of 40,000 megawatts by 2020, the Director of Finance and Investment at Heirs Holdings, Mr....
A standardized contract process could aid in boosting Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Africa’s energy space. Africa Finance Corporation chief executive, Andrew Alli, said, “One of the...
One of Nigeria’s foremost gas processing firms, Seven Energy, has initiated negotiations with 10 power plants over the possibility of supplying gas, in a move which...
Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Group plans to invest $200 million in the country’s power sector as it seeks to support private investors in the...
Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya expects east Africa’s burgeoning middle class to drive growth in 2014 after it recorded a 16 percent rise in 2013 pretax...
The project and its financiers signed agreements for the sum, paving the way for the start of the 623 million euro project, the largest single wind...
Despite Africa’s rich oil and gas reserves, environmental concerns and the high cost of the infrastructure needed to extract and refine hydrocarbons are driving a push...
Nigerian spend up to 448 billion naira ($2.6 billion) every month on mobile phone’s recharge cards making it the most expensive item on house hold budgets,...
East Africa’s third largest economy, Uganda plans to double the length of its power grid in four years at a cost of US$500 million as it...
Power pylons in Nigeria Nigeria’s federal government continues to tout opportunities for private investment in its huge electricity sector. The federal minister of of State for...
Wigton wind farm in Manchester, Jamaica. PHOTO/Jamaica Gleaner A report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has found that the Caribbean and Latin America’s renewable...
Power pylons in Nigeria (Reuters) – The Goodluck Jonathan administration in Nigeria accepted deposits by bidders for 15 state electricity assets on Monday, a milestone in...
A weed introduced to Kenya to combat desertification that eventually became a problem invading farmland and damaging farmers’ livelihoods is about to provide the necessary raw...
Africa is growing rapidly, yet the continent, which is faced with an energy deficit, is keen on finding new sources. Speakers at a recent meeting dubbed...
Nigerian teenagers, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin with their urine powered generator. PHOTO/BBC In a breakthrough, four teenage schoolgirls in Nigeria have invented a...
Nuclear Energy cooling towers Soweto South Africa. PHOTO/File Kenya is gearing up for a revision of its energy policy to establish a regulatory system for overseeing...
Major international companies are in South Sudan for a summit aimed at showcasing the new country’s potential to investors. Investors received presentations from different ministers across...
The Cahora Bassa hydroelectric plant in Mozambique, provides electricity to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Mozambique’s power utility has cut off electricity supplies to Zimbabwe over...
Dr Bird Power Station, Jamaica., owned by Jamaica Energy Partners – an independent power provider. PHOTO/File (CMC) – The Jamaica government says it will begin talks...
Electricity pylons in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province. PHOTO/Elias Mbao/Africa Review U.S. companies are looking to invest in projects to boost electricity in Africa, which has long been...
