Canada, the UK, the EU and Australia are all naming the workforce their energy transitions will need before the infrastructure arrives. Vincent Egoro asks why Africa, with the world's deepest energy deficits, isn't yet having the same conversation.
Africa's data centres consume under 1 kWh per capita. The US consumes 540. Vincent Egoro does the arithmetic on what an African AI economy would actually require, and what it would cost to build the electricity underneath it.
Africa is mobilising energy finance and technology, but who will deliver it? ETA's FEC 2026 in Accra panel examined the workforce and institutional capability gap behind the continent's energy ambitions.
IRENA and ILO count 16.6 million renewable jobs worldwide but only 344,000 in Africa. ETA examines the value chain and workforce data gaps behind the figure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The IEA gathered Western governments and mining giants in Brussels to discuss critical minerals stockpiling. No African government was in the room, despite Africa supplying many of the resources at the centre of the strategy.
A new UN University report documents 456 billion litres of water consumed extracting lithium in 2024, river contamination in the DRC's cobalt belt, and 700 million tonnes of mining waste generated by rare earth production.
Only seven African governments are in Santa Marta. Their presence and the absence of most others reveal how Africa’s energy future is being negotiated.
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.