By Edson Baraukwa | Africa Guardian The Critical Minerals Africa (CMA) 2024 Summit launched today in Cape Town, featuring market insights from leading research firms Project Blue and Rystad Energy, along with the World Bank, focusing on the evolving African mineral market. Nils Backeberg, Founder and Director at Project Blue, discussed how global geopolitical shifts and the rising demand…
On the sidelines of COP27, Egypt officially launched the continent’s first Integrated Green Hydrogen Plant in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone). The project is owned, built, and operated by Fertiglobe, Scatec ASA, Orascom Construction, and The Sovereign Fund of Egypt. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that the green transformation represents a promising opportunity to achieve development in…
The global energy debate is shifting from oil and gas to green energy. This debate is being discussed across different levels and comes at a time when a number of African countries including Uganda, either exploring or developing oil resources. Paul Murungi spoke to Mahaman Laouan Gaya, a petrochemical engineer and former secretary general of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation on…
With the country’s ambitious 6,000MW green energy generation roadmap, if successful, President Samia Suluhu Hassan will make Tanzania one of Africa’s top renewable power-generating states, after South Africa and Morocco In spite of enormous hydrocarbon potential, Tanzania is planning to plug more than 6,000 megawatts of renewable power – more than its current total power capacity – into its…