NEW YORK, September 24, 2025–Seventeen African governments today committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300–an ambitious partnership led by the World Bank Group and African Development Bank Group that aims to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030. At the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum, national Energy…
City Power’s Mondeor Switching Station in Johannesburg. Power utility City Power has engaged Chinese tech giant Huawei to curtail electricity losses amounting to over R3 billion every year. The City of Johannesburg entity is set to roll out Huawei’s Intelligent Distribution System (IDS), a solution designed to help curb network abnormalities, reduce rampant energy theft,…
Dan Marokane, Eskom group chief executive. Eskom has largely resolved a breach in its online vending system (OVS) that allowed people to obtain free electricity, facilitated by staff colluding with criminals, it says. The power utility notes the breach revealed “critical vulnerabilities in both the physical and cyber security components of the utility’s prepaid electricity…
Iraq is advancing several solar power projects as part of a plan to meet its electricity needs. Iraq is set to open its first industrial-scale solar plant in a vast desert area in Karbala as the government attempts to tackle an electricity crisis that has led to widespread blackouts. Authorities said the plant, the largest…
Eskom CEO Dan Marokane Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has again pledged that the state-owned power utility will hold future electricity tariff hikes to single-digit increases, a major shift in tone from earlier double-digit increases that have rattled consumers and businesses, pressured economic growth, and fuelled inflation. Speaking in an interview with Newzroom Afrika, Marokane said…
The author, Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso There is surely no greater sign of the urgent need for reform of the electricity sector than the way Eskom’s electricity tariffs are set. The whole system is far from the way prices should be set – through a competitive market in which firms aim to…
For seven decades, poor countries wanting to get rich have turned again and again to dams. For the post-independence leaders of Egypt and Ghana in the 1950s, hydroelectricity and sovereignty were inextricably linked. Building vast irrigation and electricity projects across the Nile and the Volta was a prerequisite if they were to catch up with…
Ben Lindeque, co-founder and business architect of Prepaid24. Prepaid24, in collaboration with Chat Inc and Ozow, has launched a WhatsApp-based platform for prepaid electricity purchases, municipal account payments and buying online vouchers. The platform, accessible via WhatsApp number 060 012 2010, allows users to initiate transactions with a “Hi” message. According to Prepaid24, the service…
Andile Ngcaba Convergence Partners chairman Andile Ngcaba said on Friday that government should consider granting a special electricity tariff for data centres to support the ICT sector’s growth. This would be similar to the dispensation offered to the mining industry, which enjoyed special rates that in the past that helped the sector become a cornerstone…
Monrovia — Liberia has been ranked among the top performers in the African Development Bank’s 2024 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI), highlighting the country’s growing impact, sustained reforms, and strong political commitment to advancing the power sector. In the newly released Index, unveiled during the 2025 Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, Liberia achieved…
