Category: Investment & Finance

June 22, 2026

Africa’s Renewable Energy Finance Gap: What $25 Billion in New Pledges Actually Means for Communities

Every few months, a major multilateral institution announces a landmark commitment to clean energy in Africa. The figures are large enough to generate headlines and reassure donor publics. Development finance institutions, bilateral agencies, and intergovernmental bodies have collectively pledged tens of billions of dollars toward Africa’s energy transition in recent years — with multilateral development […]

June 19, 2026

Africa’s Clean Energy Investment Boom: What the Numbers Mean for 2026 and Beyond

The clean energy investment story coming out of Africa in 2026 is, in headline terms, a good one. Multilateral development banks have made landmark commitments. Major corporate players have announced multi-billion dollar programmes. The Africa Forward Summit in May produced €27 billion in pledges that attracted global attention. The numbers are the largest they have […]

June 18, 2026

Closing the Energy Gap: How Africa and the Caribbean Are Leapfrogging to Clean Energy

In the 1990s, vast swathes of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean archipelago skipped the landline telephone era entirely. They never built the copper wire networks that connected households in Europe and North America. Instead, they leapfrogged directly to mobile telephony — and in doing so, they became among the most mobile-first economies in the world. […]

June 17, 2026

Clean Energy Investment in Africa & the Caribbean: Mid-2026 Investor Guide

The investment window in African and Caribbean clean energy is not opening — it is already open, and it is the widest it has ever been. As of mid-2026, more capital has been committed to clean energy projects across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in the prior twelve months than in any comparable period in […]

June 14, 2026

The Caribbean’s Clean Energy Moment: CARICOM’s 47% Renewable Target and What It Means for Investors

The Caribbean is at an inflection point. For decades, island economies across the region have been hostage to expensive imported fossil fuels — running diesel generators at some of the highest electricity costs in the world, exposed to every swing in global oil prices. Now, a convergence of regional policy ambition, multilateral financing, and rapidly […]

June 13, 2026

€27 Billion for Africa’s Clean Energy: What the Africa Forward Summit Means for ACEN Members

In May 2026, the global clean energy investment community made a statement. At the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, 40 companies collectively committed approximately €27 billion ($31.5 billion) to clean energy and infrastructure across Africa — the single largest coordinated investment pledge to the continent in 2026 so far. For anyone tracking the Africa clean […]