ESI-Africa

Founded in 1996, ESI Africa - Africa’s Power Journal serves as a reliable resource for utilities and their associates throughout Africa. Our publication offers in-depth insights and analyses on various aspects of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution. Additionally, we provide updates on renewable energy developments.

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What's needed to attract green economy investment into Africa? - ESI-Africa.com

2 weeks ago | esi-africa.com

Our Big Question: How strongly are investors attuned to green economy projects, and what is needed to garner even more traction?
Leading solar and storage innovation in South Africa - ESI-Africa.com

3 weeks ago | esi-africa.com

Jaco de Wet, Regional Sales Manager South Africa at GoodWe, gives us a tour of their latest solar and energy storage innovations
Link between oceans economy and oil and gas sector

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

While the Department of Forestry and Fisheries (DFFE) may not seem the automatic government department to be involved in oil and gas development in South Africa, DFFE’s work on South Africa’s draft Oceans Economy Master Plan includes an entire sub-section on the oil and gas sector.
Oil and gas exploration and infrastructure in South Africa

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

Regarding oil and gas exploration and infrastructure in South Africa, Paul Eardley-Taylor, Gas Sector Lead at Standard Bank, identified four key issues while delivering a global overview of the sector at the Southern Africa Oil and Gas Conference in Cape Town. Onshore discoveries of gas and helium have seen Renergen start producing helium, “but we see a problem with permitting.”“Permitting is too slow,” said Eardley-Taylor while making his first point about onshore exploration in SA.
Global impact of exploring oil & gas and relationship to energy

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

Primary energy consumption is climbing worldwide, driven by increasing populations, gross domestic product (GDP) and technology developments and thus, the energy transition, in some ways, could also be labelled an “energy addition”. As an example, digital infrastructure uses as much energy as the global airline industry, and twice as much electricity as Japan.
Sunny outlook for solar PV market across Africa

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

Around 2,402MW of solar PV was installed across Africa in 2024, slightly less than the 3,076MW installed in 2023. This is due to delayed project development in North Africa and the continent’s leading solar market (South Africa) returning to regular annual solar installation rate after a boom in 2023.
SA: Financing energy and water as debt grows and revenues shrink

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

Rising electricity costs were referenced twice in South African Finance Minister’s Budget Speech on Tuesday (12 March) with energy and water making up a small part of his overall talk compared to electricity’s outsized influence in the speech over the past few years. Stabilising the South African electricity supply is one of the cornerstones of Operation Vulindlela, which Godongwana mentioned explicitly several times during his speech.
How a growing solar sector influences energy storage

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

What you get out of policy development is so much more than just exacting standards or definitive tariffs. Enabling policy development in South Africa’s solar sector over the past few years has created opportunities to scale up renewable energy use in the country and changed how people interact with their solar sources and energy storage.
Powering healthcare: Sweden & CHAI unite for Africa

1 month ago | esi-africa.com

A new partnership to mobilise resources to power thousands of healthcare facilities across South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, and Kenya
Women in mining - how far have we come?

1 month ago | esi-africa.com | Theresa Smith

A discussion on how women are pioneering the future of mining was a reminder that gender inclusion is a tide that raises all boats. The Women in Mining breakfast at Investing in African Mining Indaba 2025 saw participants encouraged to focus on issues at ground level and listen to all voices to create the broadest consensus on the way forward.