Energy Transition

KEY POINTS Africa recorded its strongest year of solar energy deployment in 2025, with South Africa and Nigeria emerging as the continent’s top drivers of new capacity, policy reforms and …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s power utility Eskom has warned that load-shedding could return near the end of the decade if planned new gas power plants are delayed and coal power …

KEY POINTS The Federal Government has announced a major shift in electricity subsidy policy, moving to distribute the financial burden across federal, state, and local governments starting in 2026. The …

KEY POINTS The African Development Bank, AfDB, has approved a $3.9 million, two-year project to support Nigeria and 12 other African countries in implementing their National Energy Compacts under the …

KEY POINTS Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company, has resumed full electricity supply to customers following the restoration of gas supply to its embedded power generation partner, Geometric Power …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s energy regulator has approved an application by state-owned power utility Eskom to reduce electricity tariffs by 35 per cent for two distressed ferrochrome producers battling high …

KEY POINTS The Nigerian Independent System Operator, NISO, has traced Tuesday’s national grid disturbance to a voltage fluctuation at the Gombe Transmission Substation, clarifying that the incident did not amount …

KEY POINTS Members of South Africa’s energy regulator, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa, Nersa, have expressed uncertainty over Eskom’s request for an interim electricity tariff for Samancor and …

KEY POINTS When much of the national transmission infrastructure was conceived decades ago, Nigeria’s economy was smaller, less industrialised, and far less digitally connected. Today, Africa’s largest economy is powered …

KEY POINTS Retailers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), commonly known as cooking gas, are expressing cautious optimism as supply conditions improve across major markets in Nigeria. Cooking gas is currently …