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.
Africa's borrowing costs are three times Europe's. The African Credit Rating Agency is the first institution designed to challenge that. ETA explains what AfCRA is and what it could mean for clean energy.
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.
Global energy investment reaches $3.4 trillion in 2026. Africa's share is $110 billion — 3% of the total, for 20% of the world's population. Global investment in data centre energy infrastructure exceeded Africa's entire energy sector investment in 2025, according to the IEA's latest report.
Morocco has overtaken South Africa as Africa's leading industrial economy. The AfDB measured how it got there — and just backed the next phase with €450 million. ETA Analysis.
The IEA says existing tools could unlock 1,600 GW of stalled projects. Africa is not using them. ETA explains the regulatory gap that is the real barrier.
Africa is producing solar installers. It is not producing enough grid operators. Vincent Egoro on why the skills mismatch will define the transition's operational phase.
Africa holds 92% of global platinum reserves, 56% of cobalt, and $29.5 trillion in total mineral wealth. It captures a fraction of the downstream value. ETA Explains the four-stage value chain mechanism behind that gap.
Zimbabwe banned raw lithium exports in 2022, and by 2026 China’s Huayou Cobalt had opened Africa’s first lithium sulphate plant at Arcadia. ETA Explains why local processing does not automatically mean local value capture.
Nigeria’s oil sector employs just 0.01% of the workforce, while many African economies remain heavily dependent on fuel imports. A new report argues six decades of extraction failed to deliver broad development. ETA examines the evidence and the limits of the proposed solutions.
France pledged €23 billion at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, even as its aid budget faces repeated cuts. Vincent Egoro examines what Africa’s push for sovereignty, beneficiation, and financing reform means ahead of the G7 summit in Évian.
IRENA data shows 86 million Africans connected to off-grid solar, yet almost all receive too little electricity to power productive economic activity. ETA Explains why access has expanded faster than usable power.