AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoEnergy Access & Investment Gap: A new push for Africa’s energy scale-up highlights that 600m+ people lack electricity and 900m+ still rely on biomass, while the continent loses about $130bn a year from unreliable power and gets under 3% of global energy investment. Africa Energy Week (AEW) Build-Up: The African Energy Chamber says AEW 2026 in Cape Town (Oct 12–16) is shaping up around deals, local content and investment, with ministers and major operators already lining up. Nuclear Momentum: ESI Africa released a Nuclear Energy volume tracking how African countries are moving from nuclear ambition to financed, under-construction projects, citing milestones at Egypt’s El Dabaa and South Africa’s Koeberg. Solar Scale Plans: ISA launched Solarising Africa strategy and the Africa50 DRE Fund, aiming to turn solar resources into bankable projects across access, agriculture, e-mobility and utility-scale generation. Lagos Power Boost: Sahara Power Enterprise Group started building a 12MW gas-fired IPP in Lagos’ Ikeja Electric area, targeting Q1 2027 completion to cut disruptions for industrial and commercial users. Geopolitics & Energy Cooperation: Xi Jinping will attend the SCO summit and visit Kyrgyzstan and Egypt, framed as a push for practical cooperation across the Global South. Critical Minerals Debate: A report warns the rush for critical minerals is driving major harm to people and ecosystems, challenging the idea that mining expansion is mainly for the green transition.
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