Energy

South Africa is facing a risk of an unprecedented level of load shedding this week after units at two of its coal-fired power plants broke down. Eskom earlier on Sunday …

South Africa’s struggling utility Eskom is seeking an average power tariff increase of just over 32% for the financial year that starts on April 1 2023, much higher than originally …

Morocco’s National Agency for Mines and Hydrocarbons (ONHYM), Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for …

Morocco’s Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies (IRESEN) announced on Wednesday that it “successfully completed” the installation of its first micro-pilot green hydrogen production system. The pilot project …

The energy regulator has made a U-turn and increased electricity prices by 15.7 percent, reversing the January cuts by the former President Uhuru Kenyatta administration, in what has handed consumers …

The South African government has increased the wind energy allocation for Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme bid window six to 3.2GW due to the urgent need for increased capacity …

Motorists have been hit by a fuel shortage following rationing to some retail outlets in Nairobi amid fears that marketers have cut volumes in anticipation of higher prices from Wednesday …

United Arab Emirates(UAE) has leapfrogged India to become Kenya’s second largest source market after China on the back of soaring oil prices, official statistics show. Provisional trade data on Friday …

Nigeria lost its crown as Africa’s largest crude producer as Angola surpassed the country for the first time in more than five years. Angola’s average daily output in August of …

Ghana is ranked 2nd in Private Public Partnership pipeline projects in West Africa with a cumulative market size of $8.4 billion. According to Fitch Solutions. Nigeria leads the market with …