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The company’s new SANAS-accredited laboratory strengthens local testing infrastructure while supporting more accurate, reliable and compliant water metering.

Rob Ferrier lays out municipal power utilities' toughest year yet: regulation, rooftop solar draining revenue, and infrastructure crime stretching budgets

Radioactive waste management is among the least publicly understood parts of the nuclear value chain, yet it is fundamental to the credibility and long-term sustainability of nuclear energy programmes

by Chris Meyer

The key question is no longer simply “How do we keep the lights on?” but “How do we secure reliable power while controlling costs and remaining competitive?”

Solar panel manufacturing in Africa will quadruple in 2026 as new large plants come online in Egypt and Tanzania

Several countries on the continent continue set into motion plans to incorporate nuclear energy into their electricity generation plans

A collaboration between the African Infrastructure Elites and the Project & Investment Network amplifies the projects, people and investment conversations shaping Africa’s infrastructure future.

With more than 1 000 exhibitors across 44 000 m² net exhibition space, visitors can explore thousands of products, technologies, machines and services across mining, manufacturing, automation, electrical, power, engineering and related…

by Chris Meyer

The summit will take place from 13–15 October 2026 in Kigali, Rwanda.

Africa’s electricity demand is projected to more than triple by 2040, but many country’s are facing increasing energy insecurity

Kenya's distributed solar now equals more than half its grid capacity, built by businesses with no subsidy and little utility visibility

Annual uranium demand will increase as the world builds more NPPs, but like the other necessary rare earth elements demanded by nuclear reactors, the necessary critical minerals are concentrated in a handful of spaces

The continent stands at a defining moment in its economic development journey

Africa's continental power plan expects 23GW of solar by 2040, but data shows the continent has already installed more than that in three years

Op-ed: Nuclear power is the future of the world, but particularly for the GDP advancement of African countries

by Prof Dr Ioannis Tsipouridis

Necsa's research nuclear reactor has been operational since 1965

The grid is not just a collection of ageing wires and substations; it is the circulatory system of socio-economic growth

Three-quarters of Africa’s solar power growth is likely from distributed resources, which is difficult to measure

Currently, energy resilience depends on a coordinated balance between two philosophies to maintain a stable and reliable power supply

Countries across Africa are deliberately looking at how nuclear power can be used for electricity

In nuclear power the hard work is not laying the concrete or installing the turbines waste disposal, skills pipelines and public trust

Reporting from a Nuclear in Africa conference session, ESI Africa highlights what the experts say about this technology's prospects

Progress on reaching universal energy access in Africa is slowing down

Small and modular is turning out to be a much more attractive prospect for would-be nuclear power projects the world over.

Projections to 2050 indicate that, in a high-case scenario, Africa’s nuclear energy capacity could increase more than tenfold, requiring investment exceeding $100 billion

Every year without a domestic fuel strategy is a year Africa exports a strategic asset and imports the vulnerability of not using it

A forecast built on steady growth meets a tough first half of 2026