Forty-six countries meet in Santa Marta this month to build a fossil fuel phase-out coalition. Angola attends. Nigeria does not. Vincent Egoro examines what Africa's absence means for the transition it cannot avoid.
African countries borrow at 15–18% to finance clean energy infrastructure. Europe and the US pay 2–5%. This isn't a financing gap, but a pricing architecture. ETA Analysis examines how the creditworthiness framework locks Africa into fossil fuel dependence and why volume pledges alone can't fix it.
Nigeria's grid collapsed twelve times in 2024. Lake Turkana's evacuation line has failed repeatedly. The IEA and World Bank have documented Africa's maintenance deficit for years. Vincent Egoro asks why the diagnosis keeps arriving without changing anything about how the transition is financed.
Africa's solar boom was built partly on a Chinese VAT export rebate that transferred Beijing's fiscal resources to overseas buyers. From 1 April 2026, that rebate is gone. ETA Explains what it was, who it benefited, and what Africa's project economics look like without it.
Africa's energy transition is built around access and renewables. But industry — the sector that drives economic transformation — was never placed at its centre. ETA examines the institutional planning failure holding back Africa's industrial future.
Africa's clean energy capacity is growing. But for industries across the continent, electricity is becoming too expensive to run on. Vincent Egoro examines the utility insolvency trap, the political economy of power pricing, and why climate finance alone won't solve the affordability crisis.
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.
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