DeVilliers and Jaco Botha have come a long way from waiting tables at Spur and working at a video rental store to running the ...

“This partnership represents a massive leap forward for grid stability in the region,” said Mike Thompson, President of The ...

Africa's renewable energy sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, with solar power attracting more than half of clean ...

South African renewable energy company SOLA Group has begun supplying power from the continent’s first solar facility designed to sell electricity to multiple corporate buyers through SA’s grid. The ...

Independent power producer SolarAfrica Energy has begun construction on its first utility-scale solar power installation, located in South Africa's Northern Cape—which will total 1 GW when complete ...

Scatec has inked a 25-year power purchase agreement in Egypt for a 1.95 GW solar, 3.9 GWh battery energy storage project, representing the developer's largest investment to date.

Africa added 2.4GW of new solar PV capacity in 2025, an accomplishment dubbed by AFSIA CEO John van Zuylen as 'very positive' ...

Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging ...

Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It's one of several factors helping the continent gain traction with electrification.An ...

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Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. In May 2025, African countries imported ...

Despite possessing 60% of the world's highest quality solar resources, Africa only has 1% of global solar power capacity, with about 600 million people lacking access to energy as of 2021. Numerous ...