Can $60 billion in new investments revive Nigeria’s struggling oil and gas sector? That’s the ambitious target set by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), which is seeking large-scale financing to boost crude production, expand gas development, and restore the country’s refining capacity. The plan is bold: raise crude oil output to 3 million…
Nigeria’s state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has unveiled an ambitious plan to attract $60 billion in new investments over the next five to seven years. The initiative is designed to ramp up crude oil production, expand gas development, and restore Nigeria’s refining capacity, positioning the country as a competitive energy…
Kenya Power says the average rural connection is spending only KSh 7.20 a day on electricity, a figure that, if accurate, underlines a growing mismatch between the company’s expanding customer base and the revenue those customers deliver. The low daily spend helps explain why the utility is increasingly dependent on industrial and affluent urban customers…
Nearly one-billion people in low- and middle-income countries including vast swaths of Africa are served by health facilities with no or unreliable electricity, seriously jeopardizing essential medical care. Reliable electricity is not a luxury, it is fundamental to healthcare. Across sub-Saharan Africa, approximately 25,000 facilities lack any electricity, and another 70,000 suffer from unreliable power….
A new Global Maritime Forum spotlight has put Kenya on the map as a promising production hub for scalable e-fuels mainly e-ammonia and e-methanol that shipping companies see as key to decarbonising ocean trade. The report argues Kenya’s combination of ample wind, solar and geothermal power, plus strategic Indian Ocean ports such as Mombasa, could…
Hybrid energy systems, mixing solar, wind, batteries, and limited diesel back-up, are quietly becoming Africa’s most practical tool to cut emissions, end blackouts, and expand electricity access. From South Africa’s utility-scale batteries stabilizing the grid to solar-battery-diesel mini-grids lighting rural towns, hybrids are replacing fuel-hungry generators and laying the groundwork for a net-zero future. Africa…
By Josiah Habwe, General Manager for Tanzania & Uganda, Energy Business at Schneider Electric Tanzania is entering a new energy era, and an exciting one at that. With the full commissioning of the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHPP) in early 2025, Tanzania’s energy landscape is set to undergo a dramatic transformation. The 2,115MW facility, situated…
Illegally using or interfering with electricity through theft, unauthorised connections, tampering with meters or vandalising infrastructure is a criminal offence in Kenya that can cost you heavy fines, prosecution and even prison time. Courts in recent years have handed multi-year sentences and multi-million-shilling fines to people convicted of meter tampering, vandalism and running organised illegal-connection…
Nairobi, 3rd September 2025 – Kenya is set to host the first Waste Electrical and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Innovation Summit, which will take place from 16–18 September 2025 at Strathmore Business School, Nairobi. It’s part of the Kenyan-German GreenTech Innovation Program on WEEE (2024–2025), funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation,…
At their 12th meeting in Jalingo, the North-East Governors’ Forum directed its Power & Energy Committee to draft an integrated sub-regional power masterplan to tackle a deep and persistent energy deficit across Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe. The forum singled out solar and distributed renewables as immediate, “low-hanging” priorities and said the master…
