IRENA and ILO count 16.6 million renewable jobs worldwide but only 344,000 in Africa. ETA examines the value chain and workforce data gaps behind the figure.
Zambia produced 890,346 tonnes of copper in 2025. ETA examines whether smelting, power and manufacturing can turn rising output into lasting value.
South Africa's Electricity Regulation Amendment Act took effect in January 2026. NERSA's Draft Electricity Trading Rules, consultation now closing 28 August, will determine how the competitive market actually works. ETA explains.
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.
78% of African firms experienced outages last year. 41% name electricity their biggest constraint. Nigeria loses $26bn annually — before counting $22bn in generator fuel. Firms in sub-Saharan Africa lose 56 hours per month to power cuts. ETA quantifies the hidden industrial tax.
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