Africa
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Africa’s storage moment: Malawi’s first grid battery, SolarAfrica’s 300 MWh hybrid and a gigafactory bet
Three announcements in one week show African grid storage moving from pilots to standard infrastructure, with…
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Transformer lead times stretch as global grid build-out competes for supply
Utilities and developers in emerging markets report longer waits for large power transformers as global demand…
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Standalone battery tenders scale from tens to hundreds of megawatts
A new generation of standalone battery storage tenders in emerging markets is procuring hundreds of megawatts…
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Utility-scale solar tenders shift to scoring on evening delivery
Procurement agencies are rewriting solar tender rules to reward firm energy delivered into the evening peak,…
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Utility-scale battery rollouts anchor emerging-market resilience
Grid-scale storage is being specified for reliability first and arbitrage second, changing how projects are sized…
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Regulators move to fast-track cross-border transmission
Interconnection is being reframed as a reliability tool rather than a trade project, and approvals are…
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Auction pricing tightens for large solar builds
Competitive tension in recent rounds is squeezing margins for developers bidding into utility-scale tenders.
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Interconnector projects accelerate as regional power pools deepen
Cross-border transmission projects are advancing across Southeast Asia and Africa as power pools mature and countries…
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Offshore pipelines expand along new coastlines
Early-stage seabed leasing is opening in markets that had no offshore programme two years ago.
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Wheeling frameworks unlock private-to-private power sales
New wheeling rules let generators sell directly to large customers over the utility grid, opening a…
