ENGIE Energy Access Empowers African with Clean Energy via Smart Integration of Mini-grids & New Solar Home System brand

ENGIE Energy Access (EEA) has announced that within 1 year of integrating its decentralized energy businesses, it has considerably expanded its customer base and is now delivering safe and reliable … Read More

Renewables supplied only a third of Africa’s electricity demand growth

An analysis of global electricity revealed that wind and solar showed resilient growth in 2020 despite the pandemic, forcing a record fall in global coal power. The Global Electricity Review … Read More

Are African Development Bank (AfDB)’s financing policies climate-friendly?

(By Wangeci Migwi, Amy Giliam and Nicole Rodel) With the climate crisis threatening over half of the global GDP, there can be no business-as-usual when the world begins to plan … Read More

East African Countries Submit 17 Expressions of Interest for the 6th GRMF Application Round

The AUC has acknowledged that on 29 July 2020 seventeen (17) Expressions of Interest (EoI) for the Geothermal Risk Mitigation Facility’s 6th Application Round were received on time and were accepted … Read More

Outlook for Africa’s oil & gas industry improves – PwC report

The outlook for Africa’s oil & gas industry is positive amid difficult operating and economic headwinds. Tough economic and external conditions have placed pressure on oil & gas companies to … Read More

Unleashing the potential of open EITI data

Source: eiti.org/blog/ Author: Christoffer Claussen On 31 December 2017, an important provision of the 2016 EITI Standard comes into force. It requires implementing countries to make their EITI data available in open … Read More

Overview on GE Energy Connections and its Strategy for Sub-Sahara Africa

General Electric has been a prominent player in the energy space for 120 years with which about  100 years has been in Africa as to where it has managed to … Read More

Tanzania, DRC Partner in Joint Hydrocarbon Exploration of Lake Tanganyika

Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed in joint exploration and development of hydrocarbons in Lake Tanganyika after talks between DRC president Joseph Kabila and Tanzanian President John … Read More

CGG GeoConsulting Launches East Africa Rift System BasinMap

CGG GeoConsulting’s NPA Satellite Mapping group has launched the multi-client EARS BasinMap for exploration de-risking across the vast region of East Africa, from regional-to-prospect or play scale. The EARS BasinMap is part … Read More