ETA Analysis delivers in-depth analysis of Africa’s energy transition, energy policy, and political economy. This section examines the forces shaping power, resources, and decision-making — from fossil fuel phase-out pathways and critical minerals to climate finance and governance reform. Grounded in evidence and regional context, these analyses connect policy, politics, and economics to reveal what Africa’s energy transition really means for communities, governments, and the continent’s future.
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Mission 300 assumes capable institutions. The Twin Transition assumes governance-literate regulators. Africa's energy systems are digitising rapidly. But who is training the policymakers, energy economists, and digital regulators who must govern all of it? Vincent Egoro asks.
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa is now home to 563 million of the world's 655 million people without electricity, and the gap is becoming more concentrated. ETA Analysis examines what the 2026 SDG7 Energy Progress Report reveals about Africa's energy access challenge, and why current progress is still off track.
Africa recorded the world's fastest improvement in energy transition readiness in 2026. Yet grid reliability declined, infrastructure remained the weakest of any region, and system performance barely improved. ETA Analysis examines what the data actually shows.
Nigeria's solar expansion relies heavily on lead-acid batteries that typically fail within a few years. Yet nobody can say with confidence where most are recycled or disposed of. ETA Analysis examines the growing waste stream, health risks and governance gap behind off-grid energy access.
South Africa has opened the door to new oil and gas development. Guyana shows what happens next: growing dependence on hydrocarbon revenues, difficult policy trade-offs and shrinking room to change course. ETA Analysis on the risks policymakers should confront now.
Nigeria wants its most sensitive data stored at home. The problem is that data centres need reliable electricity, and the grid cannot consistently provide it. Vincent Egoro on the hidden energy challenge behind Nigeria's push for data sovereignty.
Reliable electricity can increase incomes, transform local industries and expand economic opportunity—but only under the right conditions. Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda shows why the quality of access matters more than the connection itself.
Blended finance set records in 2025, mobilising $8.40 per dollar of MIGA guarantees and reaching $18.7 billion globally. Yet it still represents less than 0.5% of annual climate finance needs. Why has it failed to close Africa's energy investment gap?
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is live. African exporters of steel, cement, fertiliser, and aluminium must now prove the embodied carbon in their products or pay punitive default tariffs. The problem: Africa lacks regional Life Cycle Inventory databases to do so.
75% of solar products in sub-Saharan Africa no longer work. ETA Analysis explains why the financing architecture produces that outcome, and what three reforms would change it.
Only 50% of hospitals have reliable power. Up to 50% of vaccines may be wasted due to cold chain failures. Nigeria's grid collapsed at least 12 times in 2024. Vincent Egoro on the post-installation failure pattern he has watched for a decade — and why the vaccines are the part nobody talks about.