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Africa's Internet Runs on Fibre. The Power Keeping It Online Still Runs on Diesel.
Around 70% of Africa's 500,000 telecom towers rely on diesel. ETA examines the hidden energy system powering fibre, mobile networks, and digital growth.
Africa's Energy Transition Has a Gender Design Gap. The Data Shows Where.
Women increasingly appear in Africa's energy policies, but major gaps remain in workforce, finance, and outcome measurement. ETA examines the latest data.
The World Has 16.6 Million Renewable Jobs. Africa Has 344,000.
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 Is Mining More Copper. September Will Test How Much Value It Keeps
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 New Electricity Trading Rules Could End Eskom's Century-Old Monopoly
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.
ETA's First Fellows Cohort Begins: Building the People Behind Africa's Energy Transition
Fifteen professionals from eight countries have begun the ETA Fellows Programme, an eleven-week initiative focused on analysis and institutional capability.
Nigeria's Solar Batteries Are Cheap. Nobody Has Priced the Lead.
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's Green Hydrogen Pipeline Has Almost No Final Investment Decisions
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.
If Africa Got Another Billion, Would We Build People?
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.
West African Power Pool (WAPP): Progress, Delays and the Road to One Grid
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 Boom Is Being Built on Gas, Not Sun
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.
IEA 2026: Africa's Minerals Are Rising. Its Refining Capacity Is Not.
The DRC produced two-thirds of global mined cobalt in 2025 and its export quota now drives the market into deficit. China is projected to refine 90% of battery-grade graphite in 2040. ETA reads the IEA's 2026 Outlook, mineral by mineral for what it means for Africa.