Energy Transition

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Africa, China and the US: The New Geopolitics of the Energy Transition

For much of the last decade, the global energy transition was framed as a technical exercise, a matter of replacing fossil fuels with renewables, coal plants with solar farms, and internal combustion...

energytransitionafrica•December 24, 2025

Energy Transition

The Lights Are Still Off: What COP30’s Promises Mean for the African Child

When negotiators at COP30 announced new climate-finance commitments in Belém, my mind went to the children I met earlier this year in a village outside Makurdi, Nigeria, six boys and girls bent over...

Vincent Egoro•November 25, 2025

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Africa Is Adding Renewables at Record Speed. The Lights Still Aren’t On.

Africa is gaining clean-energy capacity at a pace unmatched in its modern history. From Morocco’s vast Noor solar complex to Kenya’s wind farms, South Africa’s rooftop boom, and Nigeria’s swelling...

energytransitionafrica•November 19, 2025