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Africa Has Energy Finance but It Is Not Reaching Where It Matters
Global energy investment reaches $3.3 trillion in 2025. Africa gets 2%. But 80% of announced African energy projects never reach financial close, Chinese DFI spending has fallen 85%, and bankability conditions are absent in most markets. ETA maps why the money doesn't arrive.
Africa Has Power but It Cannot Afford to Use It
Africa has power, but it is too expensive to use, as tariffs rise, utilities struggle, and high financing costs limit what the energy transition can deliver.
Africa’s Digital Economy Is Booming but It Is Still Powered by Diesel
Africa’s digital economy runs on diesel, with telecom towers and data centres heavily dependent on fossil fuel, driving costs and exposing a critical infrastructure gap.
What the World Is Missing About Africa’s Energy Transition Is What Happens After Installation
At TED Vancouver, Vincent Egoro reflects on Africa’s energy transition, where systems are installed but often fail because the people to run them are missing.
The World Is Entering the Age of Electricity but Africa Is Falling Behind
The IEA's State of Energy Policy 2026, published this month, documents policy momentum in sub-Saharan Africa. But read against the IEA's Age of Electricity framing, it reveals a policy architecture still calibrated to a transition the global energy system has already moved beyond.
Africa’s Energy Transition Numbers Tell the Truth and Hide It
Record capacity, rising access, growing investment. All true. All incomplete. ETA examines the three data pairs that show what Africa's energy transition is actually delivering in 2026.
Nigeria Does Not Have an Engineering Shortage It Has an Operational Failure
Nigeria produces thousands of engineers. But its grid fails because utilities can't service what they build. Vincent Egoro names the commissioning gap nobody is measuring.
Nigeria’s $14 Billion Generator Economy Is Blocking the Energy Transition
Nigeria's $14 billion generator economy has its own supply chains, financing networks, and political economy. ETA Analysis examines why it actively competes with — rather than yields to — the energy transition.
Africa is not going to Santa Marta. That is a choice it will have to live with
Forty-six countries meet in Santa Marta this month to build a fossil fuel phase-out coalition. Angola attends. Nigeria does not. Vincent Egoro examines what Africa's absence means for the transition it cannot avoid.
The Price of Being African: How Creditworthiness Became a Geopolitical Tool
African countries borrow at 15–18% to finance clean energy infrastructure. Europe and the US pay 2–5%. This isn't a financing gap, but a pricing architecture. ETA Analysis examines how the creditworthiness framework locks Africa into fossil fuel dependence and why volume pledges alone can't fix it.
Africa’s Grid Is Failing and the Reports Are Only Just Catching Up
Nigeria's grid collapsed twelve times in 2024. Lake Turkana's evacuation line has failed repeatedly. The IEA and World Bank have documented Africa's maintenance deficit for years. Vincent Egoro asks why the diagnosis keeps arriving without changing anything about how the transition is financed.
China’s Solar Subsidies Powered Africa’s Boom but Support Is Now Fading
Africa's solar boom was built partly on a Chinese VAT export rebate that transferred Beijing's fiscal resources to overseas buyers. From 1 April 2026, that rebate is gone. ETA Explains what it was, who it benefited, and what Africa's project economics look like without it.