Energy Transition Africa

How Africa Can Build the World’s Most Resilient Power Grids

Across Africa, electricity grids are failing more frequently and for more reasons than ever before. Floods wash away transmission lines, […]

Africa’s energy transition is often described as a problem of scarcity: there is not enough capital, not enough concessional finance,

Vincent Egoro / December 18, 2025

I still remember the first time I saw electricity reach a village.It was late in the 1990s, and I was

If finance is the lifeblood of the energy transition, Africa’s arteries are still half-blocked. In 2024, the world’s multilateral development

Vincent Egoro / December 16, 2025

Every year, the rains come and go. The villagers gather at the same broken borehole, filling buckets from puddles that

There is a sentence repeated in nearly every African energy policy document: “universal access by 2030.” It is optimistic, visionary

Vincent Egoro / November 21, 2025

When I spoke to a senior human-resources lead at a major solar-energy company early this year, I expected standard answers:

Even as the narrative of Africa’s renewable potential grows louder, the latest data reveals a sobering reality. Sub-Saharan Africa’s ability

Vincent Egoro / October 24, 2025

It’s hard to forget the sound of generators at night.That deep, uneven hum that fills the silence after the national

For all the talk of solar revolutions and just transitions, one truth still defines Africa’s energy story: the continent’s access