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Article 3 of the African Energy History Series Libya occupies the centre of North Africa’s Mediterranean coastline. It is one of Africa’s largest countries by land area, at approximately 1.76 million square kilometres, but one of its most sparsely populated, with around seven million people concentrated almost entirely in a narrow coastal strip. The interior […]

Article 4 of the African Electricity History Series Morocco occupies the north-western corner of Africa, where the continent meets both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Because it has no significant domestic oil or gas reserves, Morocco has depended heavily on imported energy for much of the past century. That dependence shaped its energy […]

Article 1 of the African Energy History Series Algeria is the largest country in Africa by land area, stretching from the Mediterranean coastline in the north deep into the Sahara Desert. About 90% of the population lives in the narrow northern coastal strip, which makes up only about 12% of the country’s total land area. […]

Africa’s energy conversation has long been dominated by generation plants commissioned, solar farms inaugurated, and gas turbines procured. Comparatively, little attention has been paid to transmission: the infrastructure that actually moves electricity from where it is produced to where it is needed. This gap is one of the continent’s most consequential infrastructure deficits. The Public-Private […]

Africa is home to some of the world’s cheapest electricity. Countries like Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, and Tunisia offer residential electricity tariffs ranging from as low as $0.002/kWh to $0.068/kWh. Here is the top 10 list (based on recent data, with approximate residential ranges in USD/kWh; prices can vary by […]