Power
Generation, transmission and distribution, including hydro, gas, coal and nuclear capacity.
Overview
Generation, transmission and distribution, including hydro, gas, coal and nuclear capacity.
Key data
- Type
- energy
- Commodities
- Natural Gas & LNG, Uranium, Coal
- Countries
- Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Egypt, Morocco, Botswana
- Value chains
- Gas to LNG
Related projects
Benban Solar Park
One of the world's largest solar parks, developed as a multi-investor complex under Egypt's feed-in tariff programme.
- Capacity
- Approx. 1.5 GW across multiple plots
- Status
- Operating
Noor Ouarzazate Solar Complex
Concentrated solar power and PV complex with thermal storage, a reference project for dispatchable renewables in Africa.
- Capacity
- Approx. 580 MW (CSP and PV)
- Status
- Operating
Mphanda Nkuwa Hydropower
Planned Zambezi hydropower scheme intended to supply domestic industry and regional export markets via new transmission.
- Capacity
- Approx. 1,500 MW (announced)
- Status
- Development stage — structuring and partner selection
Related companies
oil gasTotalEnergies
Courbevoie, France
Operator of the Mozambique LNG onshore project in Area 1 and a large upstream portfolio across Africa, alongside renewables investments.
powerEskom
Johannesburg, South Africa
State-owned utility responsible for the majority of South Africa's generation and for the national transmission network.
Business opportunities
Power supply for DRC copper expansion
Copper expansion in Lualaba is power-constrained. Hydropower rehabilitation, imports and IPP capacity represent a recurring investment need rather than a single tender.
Mozambique transmission backbone participation
Mphanda Nkuwa cannot deliver value without new high-voltage transmission, creating opportunities in EPC, financing and equipment supply.
Related countries
Mozambique
Mozambique combines world-scale offshore gas in the Rovuma Basin with graphite, heavy sands, coal and the Mozal aluminium smelter, making it one of Africa's most connected energy-to-industry economies.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The DRC hosts the highest-grade major copper mines in the world and dominates global cobalt supply, with the Lobito Corridor reshaping how that output reaches international markets.
Nigeria
Nigeria pairs long-established upstream oil and gas with the continent's largest single-train refinery and the NLNG expansion, under a post-Petroleum Industry Act regulatory framework.
South Africa
South Africa has the continent's deepest mining, metals and chemicals industrial base, and its energy agenda is dominated by Eskom's generation fleet, transmission capacity and the renewables procurement programme.
Zambia
Zambia's copper growth ambition depends as much on hydropower availability and Lobito Corridor logistics as on orebody quality.
Egypt
Egypt combines large offshore gas production, LNG re-export infrastructure and one of the world's largest solar parks at Benban.
Morocco
Morocco pairs the Noor Ouarzazate solar complex and strong wind resources with OCP's phosphate industry and a growing automotive and battery-materials ambition.
Botswana
Botswana's economy is anchored on diamond mining through the Debswana partnership between the government and De Beers, with coal resources and a growing copper belt in the Kalahari.
Related commodities
Natural Gas & LNG
Africa's gas story runs through the Rovuma Basin, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria, and is increasingly evaluated on liquefaction capacity rather than reserves.
Uranium
Namibia and Niger are the principal African suppliers into the nuclear fuel cycle.
Coal
South African thermal coal and Mozambican coking coal remain significant export earners and power-sector inputs.
Value chains
Related infrastructure
Related news
Eskom energy availability reaches 68.2%, highest in six years
Eskom reports a financial-year-to-date Energy Availability Factor of 68.2%. Year-to-date diesel spend fell R4.87 billion (80.47%) to R1.18 billion, and the utility reports 5,695 MW of surplus capacity.
Government reaffirms sovereign guarantee to Mozambique LNG creditors
Mozambique's government has reaffirmed its sovereign guarantee to the lenders financing the Mozambique LNG project, as reported by Club of Mozambique.
Eni to drill up to six wells offshore Mozambique for Coral North; third FLNG pursued
Reuters, via CNBC Africa, reports Eni plans to drill up to six wells for the Coral North project and is pursuing a third floating LNG unit in Mozambique.
Mozambique LNG works advance at Afungi as contractors remobilise
Operator communications point to renewed onshore activity on the Afungi site. Confirm scope, schedule and workforce figures directly with the operator.
Lobito Corridor volumes become the metric to watch for Copperbelt exports
The Atlantic route shortens transit versus east coast alternatives; realised tonnage will determine its strategic weight.
Benban remains the template for multi-investor solar at scale
Egypt's Aswan solar complex is still referenced as the structuring precedent for large African renewable clusters.
DRC holds cobalt exports to 96,600 tonnes a year as refining stays in China
The DRC caps cobalt exports at 96,600 tonnes a year, while processing remains concentrated in China, according to Le Point.cd's review after the 23–25 September Trump–Xi meeting.
Copperbelt growth keeps running into the power question
Expansion plans in Lualaba and North-Western Province depend on firm electricity, placing hydropower rehabilitation and imports at the centre of copper strategy.
Related intelligence
African liquefaction capacity: what is actually under construction
Separating announced capacity from sanctioned, financed and physically progressing capacity across Nigeria, Mozambique and Egypt.
Country intelligence: Mozambique resource economy
Gas, graphite, coal, heavy sands and aluminium in one economy — and the infrastructure that determines whether they connect.
From molecules to metal: can Mozambique convert gas into industry?
Mozambique's strategic question is not whether it can export LNG, but whether any of those molecules become domestic industrial capacity.
African copper growth is a power and logistics problem
Grade is not the constraint in the Central African Copperbelt. Firm electricity and export corridor capacity are.