AfrElec - Africa Power Monitor

IRENA conference turns focus on to green hydrogen

Green hydrogen needs to build on its unprecedented political and business momentum if it is to beat fossil fuels, derive gas hydrogen on cost within five years and drive forward the energy transition

South Africa remains vulnerable as load-shedding continues

Load-shedding continues in South Africa as political promises are broken. Eskom and the government have failed to put forward workable solutions to the crisis

AfDB invests $20mn in private equity support for African solar

AfDB to provide $21.8mn to fund solar irrigation in Sudan

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $21.8mn grant to the government of Sudan to accelerate the adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps in the country’s West Kordofan and North Kordofan states.