Energy and development experts from across Africa and beyond have called for renewed urgency in the drive to light up and power the continent. With close to 600 million Africans still lacking electricity, they argue that Africa's power deficit must be considered both a crisis and an opportunity to...
Improving Governance and Leadership in Africa’s power sector is an imperative for addressing various bottlenecks impeding the performance of power utilities in the continent. In the framework of the African Network of Centers of Excellence in Electricity (ANCEE), co-funded by the African...
Public, private and civil society stakeholders, including government agencies, development partners and investors in the energy sector began a two-day workshop today to discuss the technical, commercial, regulatory and financial issues in Africa’s fast-growing Energy market. The inaugural...
Africa investor (Ai), the international investment and communications group, and Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform, co-hosted the fourth Ai CEO Infrastructure Project Developers Summit on June 18 in Mauritius. The Summit was opened by Paramasivum Pillay...
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), managed by the African Development Bank, has approved on 30 May 2018 a US$ 1 million grant to support the Republic of São Tomé & Príncipe in unlocking private investments in development of mini hydro power projects. The projects will...
25-Jun-2018
Guinea-Bissau - Bissau City Power Distribution System Improvement Project (PDSDE) – ESMP Summary
The Bissau City Power Distribution System Improvement Project (PDSDE) is a continuation of the PASEB project, which aimed to increase access and improve power supply, contribute to mitigating the country's sources of fragility and strengthening its resilience, and improve the commercial management...
20-Jun-2018
Electricity Regulatory Index 2018
The past two decades have witnessed a transformation of the electricity market in Africa following the gradual opening, liberalization, and reform of national electricity markets. A fundamental component of the transformation process has been the establishment of national regulatory institutions...
Though the majority of African countries have developed relatively robust institutional frameworks for the regulation of their electricity sectors, much work remains in strengthening regulatory independence, says the Electricity Regulatory Index for Africa (ERI) – a crucial new report by...
The African Development Bank will on 20 June 2018 launch its flagship Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) – a special report that measures the level of development of the regulatory frameworks in African countries and examines their impact on the performance of their respective electricity...