AfrElec - Africa Power Monitor

22 January 2025

South Africa added 1.1 GW of solar in 2024, industry association data show

21 January 2025

South Africa added approximately 1.1 GW of solar in 2024, according to figures from the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association, down from 2.6 GW of new capacity installed a year earlier but still far more than other African countries.

South Africa’s power utility Eskom achieves 300 days of no power outages

21 January 2025

South Africa’s state-owned power utility Eskom will achieve 300 days without implementing rolling power outages, or load shedding, on January 21, a milestone last seen in June 2018.

Africa’s Just Energy Transition: AEC shares insights from South Africa and Senegal

21 January 2025

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman of the African Energy Chamber, shares Just Energy Transition (JET) lessons learnt from two African countries with different power generation contexts.