Africa’s energy transition debate remains dominated by power generation targets, electrification rates, and renewable capacity additions. These are necessary foundations. But they are no longer...
Fossil fuel phase-out assumes grid stability and storage. Are African power systems ready for a rapid exit?
For more than a decade, the global energy transition has been sold as a story of technology. We are told solar panels are getting cheaper, wind turbines are getting taller, and batteries are...
For most of modern economic history, electricity demand has followed growth. When economies expanded, electricity use rose steadily and predictably, rarely faster. That relationship is now breaking....
As Mining Indaba opens in a few days, one point of alignment is already clear: value addition has become the dominant political language around Africa’s future in critical minerals. From policy...
The statistic is now familiar enough to sound almost ritualistic. Africa receives around 2% of global clean energy investment, despite hosting nearly a fifth of the world’s population, the...
For more than a decade, Africa’s climate transition has rested on a delicate fiction: that global climate finance, however slow and insufficient, would eventually scale up. Pledges would harden into...
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