How does African cross-border electricity trade work? ETA explains power pools, bilateral contracts, day-ahead markets, wheeling and regional grids.
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 wants to process its critical minerals locally. But can beneficiation scale without reliable electricity? A deep analysis of the power constraint.
Africa’s power sector often celebrates rising installed capacity. But that number can hide outages, grid losses and unreliable electricity. Here is what it really means.
Methane monitoring is becoming one of the most valuable technical skills in the energy industry as climate pressure reshapes hydrocarbons. Why it matters for African producers.
Africa’s energy transition depends on thousands of transmission engineers, dispatch planners and grid operators. But a critical skills shortage threatens the continent’s electricity future.
Are Africa’s regional power pools delivering cheaper electricity and renewable integration, or stalling the continent’s energy transition?
Africa is building renewable energy, but grid congestion means much of it cannot be used, creating new risks for investment and system reliability.
Oil and gas careers in Africa are entering a defining decade. Here’s how energy professionals must evolve, adapt and stay competitive in 2026 and beyond.
There is a sentence repeated in nearly every African energy policy document: “universal access by 2030.” It is optimistic, visionary and mathematically impossible. With just five years to go, Africa...