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Africa Emerges as World Fastest-Growing Solar Market in 2025 – Report
Africa’s solar adoption is gradually becoming mainstream market.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Join Forces to Expand Clean Energy Access Across Rwanda
The addendum builds on the Board’s July 2025 approval of a $200 million African Development Bank Group loan and formalises the $100 million AIIB co-financing arrangement as part of a total programme cost of $300 million.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: ‘Clean Energy for People and Planet’ Must Start With African Realities
For Africa, the clean energy agenda cannot be framed as a matter of global urgency translated into continental compliance. It must be ‘glocalised’, by adapting to local political economies, governance realities, historical trajectories of (under) development, and importantly, a consideration of indigenous energy systems.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The False Choice in African Energy Access: Why the Sector Must Balance the Needs of Households and Businesses — And How it Can Electrify Both
Energy access is essential to Africa’s development. But as Alba Topulli at CLASP and Todd Moss at the Energy for Growth Hub argue, progress has stalled over a false choice: Should the continent prioritize solar home systems that bring basic access to households — or should it invest in making electricity cheaper and more reliable for businesses, to power job creation and economic growth? They explain why the energy access sector must resist this perceived trade-off, and propose four key principles that can allow Africa to accomplish both of these goals.
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- Energy
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Press Release: Rockefeller Foundation Report Finds Nuclear Energy Could Deliver up to 30% Electricity Generation for Emerging Economies
New data from Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda, and South Africa show that nuclear — including next-generation SMRs — could deliver up to 30% of electricity generation and lower system costs by up to 31% by 2050 compared to renewables-only pathways.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond
Productive use of renewable energy (PURE) technologies such as solar irrigation, cold storage and agro-processing can have a transformative impact in Africa and other emerging markets. But though the potential of these technologies is undeniable, the scale isn’t. As Daniel Waldron, Chris Emmott and Kristi Chon at Acumen, and Duda Slawek at Open Capital explain, few agricultural companies are delivering PURE solutions, and fewer still are growing fast enough to meet the scope of the problems they are trying to solve. They share new research and analysis that illuminate the challenges that are holding the sector back, and propose three ways forward.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Rockefeller, World Bank Fund Solar Projects Across Six African Countries to Boost Agriculture
The initiative will support the rollout of solar-powered cold storage facilities, refrigerators, water pumps and grain mills in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mirova Invests $19 Million in Kenya’s Cold Solutions Kiambu to Scale Climate-Smart Cold Chain in East Africa
The funding comes through the Mirova Gigaton Fund, a blended finance debt vehicle focused on scaling clean energy and climate solutions in emerging markets.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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