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Coverage of Africa’s energy transition, climate tech, solar, green bonds, EVs, and clean energy infrastructure.
Ethiopia Is Selling Electricity to Half of East Africa. Here Is What That Actually Means.
The Ethiopia-Kenya HVDC interconnector is live. Tanzania and Uganda are next. Ethiopia’s 45 GW hydro potential is becoming a regional trade asset — but the economics, the politics, and the grid risks are more complicated than the development finance pitch suggests.
Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV
Buried inside Ghana’s routine quarterly electricity rate review was something historic: Africa’s first regulated commercial EV charging tariff. Here is what it means for EV infrastructure investment across West Africa.
Africa’s COP30 Countdown: Which Countries Have the Finance to Back Their Climate Pledges?
Eight months to Belem. Updated NDCs are due before June. BETAR rates five African markets on whether their climate commitments have credible funding behind them.
