Africa Energy Finance Pulse
Our deal-desk read on where African energy and climate capital is actually moving — bankability, offtake risk, blended structures and the disclosure regimes shaping them.
Analysis & Deal Commentary
Clean Cooking Intelligence: Tanzania Made It Bankable
Access rose from 6.9% to 28.6% in five years. Intelligence Brief 2 of 2026 — interactive analytics on the pace achieved, the fuel mix behind it, and what 80% by 2034 actually requires.
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The EAPP Renewable Resurgence: 8 GW in 24 Months
Guest analysis by Geoffrey Omedo, PhD. A region crosses from deficit to surplus, the Ethiopia–Kenya HVDC spine goes live, and the bottleneck moves from generation to wires.
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EAPP Grid Intelligence: The Grid Is Growing, The Map Is Not
76.8 GW across 13 member States, with surpluses sitting beside structural deficits. Interactive capacity, corridor, cost and dispatch analytics from Intelligence Brief 1 of 2026.
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IFRS S1 & S2: What Kenyan Companies Need to Know
The ISSB standards are reshaping sustainability disclosure ahead of the 2027 mandate. A practical starting point for boards and finance teams.
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Five Reasons Climate Proposals Fail — and How to Fix Them
After reviewing hundreds of concept notes, these are the patterns that separate funded projects from rejected ones.
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The Employer’s Annual OSH Compliance Calendar
Audits, trainings, drills and registrations — a month-by-month checklist to stay ahead of DOSH requirements.
Read analysis →Renewable Energy Project Finance in East Africa
The Pulse tracks where African energy and climate capital is actually moving. These are the questions our desk is asked most often, and the ground each issue covers.
Green Hydrogen Bankability in Africa
Offtake certainty, electrolyser capex, and the water and grid constraints that decide whether an African green hydrogen project is financeable or merely announced.
Africa E-Mobility and Energy Finance Insights
Two-wheeler and fleet electrification, battery-swap economics, and how e-mobility portfolios are being financed across East African markets.
PPA Offtake Risk Mitigation in the Energy Transition
Utility creditworthiness, curtailment and tariff risk — and the guarantee, hedging and contractual structures lenders accept in their place.
Early Stage Capital for Clean Tech in Africa
Where concept-stage clean tech ventures find their first cheque, and what a pre-revenue company must evidence before a fund will look at it.
Renewable Energy Project Finance, East Africa
Capital stacks for solar, wind, geothermal and storage across the EAC — sponsor equity, DFI debt, concessional layers and where each is currently priced.
The Regimes Shaping Capital Flows
How IFRS S1/S2, GRI and Article 6 reporting requirements are changing what capital providers ask for before they commit.
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Two of the screens we run internally, released free to Pulse readers.
African Clean Energy Bankability Checklist
Offtake, tariff, land, permitting, sponsor capability and E&S safeguards — the screen every project should survive before it meets a capital provider.
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Work backwards from your first mandatory reporting year under the ICPAK timetable, mapped to IFRS S1/S2 and GRI.
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ESG & Sustainability Excellence
Disclosure readiness, board governance and the ESG Academy.
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Pipeline formulation, blended finance and Article 6 structuring.
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Statutory audits, hygiene surveys and integrated ISO systems.
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