Illuminating care: The science of hospital lighting

As South Africa’s wind-development map moves inland, new turbine technology is targeting higher energy yields in areas with more moderate wind resources.

A South African training programme is giving young people locked out of work and education a practical route into the growing solar sector.

Africa’s AI ambitions come with a physical reality: data centres need enormous amounts of reliable power. 

South Africa’s electric vehicle story began decades before the current transition, with several of its milestones now preserved in a Johannesburg museum.

Record renewable growth in 2025 still leaves annual capacity additions needing to almost double to meet the global 2030 target.

Nuclear generation reached a record in 2025, but new data shows a sector increasingly concentrated in China and Russia as solar and battery deployment accelerates.

Small, preventable faults are quietly eroding returns from South Africa’s growing solar and battery fleet.

Eskom says Medupi and Kusile stayed within their approved construction budgets. Chris Yelland examines the major costs those figures leave out.

Africa needs almost $240 billion in annual energy investment by 2030 under the IEA’s Sustainable Africa Scenario, sharpening the focus on how projects can attract the capital and expertise required to move into development.

Kenya is pursuing significant investments in refining, domestic oil production and electricity generation, including a proposed 700,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Lamu and plans for an additional 5,500 MW of generation capacity.

African Energy Week 2026 will examine the technologies behind major African oil, gas and LNG developments.

Cape Town’s pooled electricity wheeling programme has facilitated approximately 3.1 GWh of electricity between private generators and customers, with the City now considering opening the programme to the wider market.