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SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 15 Jun 2026
Chinese refiner Hengli turns to West African crude, lifting demand for Nigerian and Angolan barrels
China's Hengli Petrochemical, sanctioned by the United States in April over alleged purchases of Iranian oil,...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 12 Jun 2026
DRC's ANSER provisionally awards $12.1m in rural solar PV contracts across three provinces
The Democratic Republic of Congo's National Rural Electrification and Energy Services Agency (ANSER) has provi...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 10 Jun 2026
Tiger Brands' Dual-Track Energy Transition Advances as Seven Solar Sites Go Live
Tiger Brands' confirmation that solar power is now operational at seven manufacturing sites across South Afric...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 10 Jun 2026
Eskom Green and what it signals for Copperbelt mining's energy problem
South Africa's state power utility Eskom on Tuesday launched Eskom Green, a new renewable energy platform targ...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 06 Jun 2026
Mini-Grids: The Infrastructure That Could Actually Solve African Energy Poverty
Approximately 590 million people in Africa had no access to electricity as of 2023. The national grid, in its...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 06 Jun 2026
Namibia's Solar Moment: How a Sparsely Populated Desert Nation Became Africa's Renewables Benchmark
Namibia is not the obvious candidate to top Africa's solar performance table. Its population is small, its eco...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 06 Jun 2026
The Rooftop Revolution: How Commercial and Industrial Solar Is Quietly Electrifying Africa's Businesses
The story of African solar is often told through mega-projects: 500 MW bids, utility-scale farms, government t...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 06 Jun 2026
BESS Is Not a Buzzword Anymore: Battery Storage Is Reshaping African Energy Economics
Ask any independent power producer what killed a promising solar project in Africa five years ago, and the ans...
SOLAR & RENEWABLES · 06 Jun 2026
Africa's Solar Reckoning: Why 2026 Is the Year the Continent Stops Talking and Starts Building
For years, the story of African solar has been told in potential — in terawatts the continent could generate,...

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