Kenya’s Geothermal Energy and the Displacement of the Maasai
By the end of 2025, Kenya's installed geothermal capacity had reached 980 MW, making it the world's seventh-largest geothermal producer...
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Rwanda’s 2016 National Electrification Strategy (NES) was set to rapidly electrify millions of homes, through grid expansion and off-grid solutions....
How Power Tanks Are Keeping Nigeria’s Small Businesses Running Amid Persistent Grid Failures
Ilorin, Nigeria — When graphic designer Adekola Ibrahim opened his laptop to start the day’s work, a sudden power outage...
Ghana Already Knows How to Float Solar on a Dam. Can It Scale?
Bui Power Authority has proven the model on a small reservoir. The question is whether it can survive contact with...
EP Deep Dive | Mission Impossible: US Struggles to Cut China out of Critical Mineral Supply Chains
The Energy Transition and the Mineral Race “The energy transition is reducing dependence on fossil fuels, but it is also...
Uganda Still Cooks Over Firewood. Could Chinese Stoves Change That?
While improved cookstoves are beginning to change cooking practices in Uganda, millions still rely on preparing meals over smoky open...
Biogas Cuts Firewood Use in Rural Zimbabwe
On the Mutare-Masvingo highway, about 40 kilometres outside Zimbabwe’s eastern border city of Mutare, a woman and a child carrying...
“The Injustice Is That We Are Being Asked to Transition from Energy We Never Had”
Esther Nyamekye Opoku is a Programme Officer at CORD Ghana (Centre for Opportunities and Rural Development), a civil society organisation...
El Niño Droughts Threaten Hydropower; Zimbabwe and Zambia Turn to Solar
The devastating El Niño-induced drought that crippled hydropower generation across Zimbabwe and Zambia has exposed the vulnerability of Southern Africa's...
Wildfires Are Becoming a New Threat to the Energy Transition in North Africa
Tunisia is experiencing one of its hottest summers on record, with temperatures approaching 50°C over the past two weeks. Combined...
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