Nigeria produces thousands of engineers. But its grid fails because utilities can't service what they build. Vincent Egoro names the commissioning gap nobody is measuring.
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.
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 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 is pushing for mineral beneficiation, but smelters and processing industries are already declining. Can industrialisation survive this trend?
Africa wants to process its minerals locally, but high energy costs may stand in the way. Can beneficiation scale without affordable electricity?
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.
Are African universities preparing students for the energy transition? A deep look at Africa’s growing energy skills gap and what it means for the future workforce.
Africa faces a $100–120 billion grid gap, and it is holding back industry and the energy transition. The real problem is not generation, it is transmission.
Is Africa’s green skills gap a shortage of engineers or a shortage of system literacy? An ETA analysis of the policy tension shaping energy transition outcomes.
For most of the past decade, climate finance has been discussed as a moral equation. If African countries showed ambition, net-zero targets, transition plans, long lists of renewable projects, and...
“Only 14% of committed mini-grid funding has actually been disbursed.” That figure should stop every energy conversation in its tracks. I have spent years travelling through African communities where...