Power Africa Is Gone. Who Fills the $2–3B Annual Gap It Left Behind?
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USAID’s dismantling has effectively ended Power Africa. The $2-3B annual financing gap now falls to MDBs, DFIs, and Gulf capital.
Egypt’s 1GW Solar Race: The DFI Financing Architecture Behind Africa’s Largest Renewable Projects
Egypt is building 1GW of solar at a pace that makes it Africa’s most active renewable market. The DFI financing architecture that makes it possible.
AIIM’s ATAF Reaches First Close: The $200M Fund Designed to Fix Africa’s Climate Finance Architecture
AIIM’s Africa Transition Finance fund has reached first close — and its design directly targets the structural gaps in African climate finance.
I&M Bank Kenya Closes $30M SIDA Green Facility: How Development Finance Enters Commercial Banking
I&M Bank Kenya’s $30M SIDA facility is a case study in how development finance risk-sharing instruments move climate lending into commercial banks.
How $10M Unlocks $4.4 Billion: AfDB’s Catalytic Bet on Namibia’s Hyphen Hydrogen Energy
AfDB’s $10M SEFA grant to Namibia’s Hyphen Hydrogen Energy project is designed to trigger a final investment decision on $4.4B in capital.
Africa’s $5B EV Market Has 200 Public Chargers. That Is the Problem.
Africa’s EV market is growing but its charging infrastructure isn’t. With fewer than 200 public chargers on a continent of 1.4 billion people, the gap is structural.
Africa’s Green Hydrogen Moment: $15B in Projects, But Who Are They For?
Africa has $15B in green hydrogen projects under development — but the export-versus-domestic tension is becoming a political fault line.
South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+Battery Project Breaks Ground — And It’s Designed to Decarbonise Sasol and Air Liquide
Sola’s NAOS-1 project is South Africa’s largest private solar+battery system — built to decarbonise two industrial giants through wheeling.
Sistema.bio’s $53M FarmCarbon: The Carbon Credit Structure Turning Livestock Waste Into Clean Energy for Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
Sistema.bio’s FarmCarbon programme builds biogas digesters for African smallholder farmers — financed entirely through carbon credits.
Africa BESS 2026: The Battery Layer That Turns Solar Into Reliable Power
Battery energy storage is the missing infrastructure layer that determines whether Africa’s solar buildout delivers reliable power — or just daytime electricity.
