This piece is cross-posted with The ONE Campaign. “Power will power job creation.” This bold statement from Liberia’s Minister of Finance and Development Planning Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan succinctly ...

BLUF: Nigeria’s first Integrated Resource Plan (NIRP) recommends expanding the national grid tenfold by 2045. But it rests on three doubtful assumptions: That customers — already off-grid — will ...

Countries soon rolled out extreme energy-conservation measures, but only for the public sector. They cut workdays, canceled travel, and limited air-conditioning in government buildings (See Table 2).

The share of global energy consumption used in residential electricity. 15 kWh The amount of electricity a person must use in a year to be considered to have ‘basic electricity access’, according to ...

Demand for electricity across Africa will grow many times over by 2050. Nuclear power is a potential source of clean power to drive industrialization and grow incomes, especially with new smaller, ...

BLUF: For African governments overseeing underperforming utilities, South Africa’s power turnaround offers a replicable model. After years of chronic outages, South Africa achieved 300+ consecutive ...

An eruption can be prevented by extracting the gas, discarding the CO2, and using the methane gas — thus, turning a potential disaster into a tangible benefit. The Future: The reserves of methane gas ...

The positive relationship between energy and economic growth is clear: income and energy consumption are tightly correlated on every continent and across every time period for which data exists.

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 commits the world to ending energy poverty by “ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030.” The dominant ...

Ghana’s electricity sector faces an urgent crisis of immense financial strain that calls for a new, more transparent approach for contracting power in the future. Public information on current ...

China, the US, EU, and other major markets like India and Brazil take up the bulk of analysis in the IEA’s latest annual assessment of global energy investment flows. But this report (and the IEA’s ...

Electricity demand across Africa is expected to grow almost 7x by 2050, according to the latest IAEA nuclear projections. Nuclear power could help to meet a portion of this need. Newer technologies ...