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Africa energy infrastructure news and analysis
The grids, solar, storage, gas and hydro projects reshaping power across Africa, from Egypt to South Africa: what is being built, who is paying for it, and what happens next. Updated as the stories land.
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Floating solar moves from pilots to hydro-reservoir programmes
Utilities with large hydro reservoirs are scaling floating solar from demonstration arrays to programme-level procurement, using existing grid connections and complementing hydro output.
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Wind repowering enters the conversation in first-generation markets
Early wind farms in emerging markets are approaching mid-life, and owners are weighing repowering with larger turbines against life extension, with grid capacity often…
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Hybrid solar-plus-storage bids dominate latest tender rounds
Developers are competing on delivered evening energy rather than headline solar tariffs.
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Energy infrastructure in South Africa: Eskom, load-shedding, REIPPPP and the private power boom
How South Africa’s power system is being restructured, why load-shedding happened, how the renewable IPP programme and private generation reforms work, and where the…
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Distributed commercial solar reshapes daytime demand for utilities
Rapid growth in commercial and industrial rooftop and ground-mount solar is flattening daytime demand on emerging-market grids, forcing utilities to rethink tariffs, planning and…
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Energy infrastructure in Nigeria: a privatised sector, a fragile grid and the rise of distributed power
How Nigeria’s power sector is organised after privatisation, why grid supply lags installed capacity, what the 2023 Electricity Act changes, and where suppliers find…
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Local content rules tighten in renewable procurement
More emerging markets are attaching local manufacturing, assembly and employment requirements to renewable energy tenders, reshaping supply chains and rewarding suppliers who partner with…
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Energy infrastructure in Kenya: geothermal leadership, a renewables-heavy grid and the next build-out
How Kenya built one of the world’s cleanest grids on geothermal, wind and hydro, who runs generation, transmission and distribution, and where the next…
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Energy infrastructure in Egypt: gas-fired backbone, giant solar and wind zones and interconnection ambitions
How Egypt turned a supply crisis into surplus, who runs the system, how the Benban solar park and Gulf of Suez wind zones were…
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Curtailment risk is now priced into renewables bids
Developers and lenders in grid-constrained emerging markets are modelling curtailment explicitly, and bid prices, contract terms and project designs are changing as a result.
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Gas peakers get a second look as renewables share climbs
Fast-starting gas and dual-fuel peaking plants are being procured again in emerging markets to firm rising solar and wind, often alongside batteries rather than…
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Energy infrastructure in Morocco: ONEE, MASEN and a renewables strategy built for export
How Morocco organised its power sector around a national utility and a renewables agency, what the Noor and wind programmes delivered, and why interconnection…
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Energy infrastructure in South Africa: Eskom, load-shedding, REIPPPP and the private power boom
How South Africa’s power system is being restructured, why load-shedding happened, how the renewable IPP programme and private generation reforms work, and where the…
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