Why Is Uganda Taking Solar Power Into West Nile
Uganda has just put a 24 MWp solar power plant into commercial operation in West…
Category: Clean energy
Why Is It So Hard for Africa’s Small Solar Companies to Get Money?
Africa’s distributed solar market has a financing problem. Odyssey Energy Solutions has raised US$74 million—US$27…
Egypt Signs 25-Year Deal for 1 GW Wind Farm at the Gulf of Suez
Egypt is turning one of its strongest wind corridors into a major source of electricity.…
Dubai Is Betting on Kenya’s Clean-Energy Advantage
Dubai’s role in Kenya’s clean-energy story is becoming bigger than simply financing power plants. UAE…
SBM Bank Backs Kenya’s Green-Energy Manufacturing With $17 Million Facility
SBM Bank Kenya has provided a US$17 million financing facility to Safer Power Group to…
Egypt Is Linking Clean Energy With Water Security
Egypt is increasingly treating the green transition as more than a question of replacing fossil…
Scatec Completes Africa’s Largest Solar-Plus-Storage Project in Egypt
Scatec has reached full commercial operations at Egypt’s 1.1 GW Obelisk hybrid solar-and-storage project, completing…
How Scatec Financed Egypt’s $590 Million Obelisk Solar-Plus-Storage Project
The $590 million investment behind Scatec’s Obelisk project illustrates how large renewable-energy projects in Africa…
Ramaphosa Says South Africa’s Energy Reforms Are Unlocking Billions in Clean-Power Investment
South Africa’s energy transition is increasingly being positioned as an industrial strategy rather than simply…
Sasol Taps Envision Energy to Design Green Hydrogen System in South Africa
Sasol has appointed Envision Energy to design an integrated green hydrogen system at its Sasolburg…