The African continent has a legacy of innovating solutions to their challenges and sharing them widely. In the context of the ...

Ghana’s electricity sector is facing mounting financial and operational challenges due to the significant underutilisation of ...

Ghana’s electricity sector faces considerable challenges, with a pressing need to address the underutilized generation ...

enabling them to sell power at competitive rates within the West African Power Pool (WAPP) – a regional electricity grid. He detailed several provisions of the Free Zones Act that could be ...

With success stories and blueprints from Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire and Togo itself, WA-ECS is urging greater collaboration between countries, sectors, private and public, to create new ...

Energy access in Africa remains a pressing concern, despite growing government efforts to get electricity closer to the people. Yet, energy remains one of the single most important ingredients for ...

However, power outages due to storms that persist past a few hours can have devastating effects on people’s lives and their livelihood. During the severe cold snap in the winter of 2021 that hit the ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to loan $54m towards meeting the $225m cost of Mozambique’s first wind farm.

Private power and Independent Power Producer (IPP) investments are pivotal for Africa’s energy future if it is to improve ...

The deployment fits into a wider pattern of waning Western influence in the region while offering Moscow funding ...

Zambia ramped up imports of electricity from neighboring countries, bringing some relief to consumers who’ve been subjected to lengthy blackouts as an El Niño-induced drought curbs output from its ...

Ghana should consider licencing its independent power producers (IPPs) under the Ghana Free Zones Act to strengthen the country’s position in the West African electricity export market ...