Fifteen professionals from eight countries have begun the ETA Fellows Programme, an eleven-week initiative focused on analysis and institutional capability.
Nigeria's lead-acid solar batteries are cheap partly because nobody has priced the lead inside them properly. Formal recycling capacity has grown fivefold in a decade, yet no agency publishes the formal-to-informal split. ETA traces the supply chain nobody has mapped.
Africa has 31 green hydrogen projects targeting 1.2 Mt by 2030. Only 2% of the 17 GW pipeline has reached FID. WACC reaches 16% in some markets. AMAN suspended. ETA reads the IEA's first dedicated Africa chapter in detail.
Africa commissions megawatts and counts connections. It rarely measures whether the people to sustain what it builds are being developed at the same pace. Vincent Egoro on the human infrastructure gap that determines whether Africa's energy investments last thirty years or ten.
The WAPP North Core Project is 56% complete after security delays. Nigeria synchronised with the regional grid for 4 hours in November 2025. Ghana-Côte d'Ivoire reinforcement MOU signed in June 2025. ETA on where West Africa's unified grid project actually stands in 2026.
Africa's AI data centre build-out is converging on natural gas, not solar. A 20 MW facility in Nigeria needs a 100 MW gas plant. Kenya's geothermal grid shows the alternative. ETA on who bears the stranded-asset risk if the global AI capex cycle turns.
Morocco scored 0.8415 on the AfDB's 2025 Africa Industrialisation Index. South Africa scored 0.8396, its first time below Morocco since 2010. Manufacturing fell from 21% to 12% of South Africa's GDP. ETA analyses what produced the divergence and what electricity has to do with it.
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