Category: Analysis
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Availability payments: making them work for African cities
Availability payments can finance roads, BRT and street lighting where user charges cannot. They only work if the city can show it will pay,…
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What lenders now ask before they fund African solar
Development lenders still want solar. They have become more precise about what they need to see, and the projects that close fastest answer those…
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Accra, Abidjan or Lagos? Choosing a West African base
Each city is a credible regional base for different reasons. A balanced comparison of markets, currency, set-up, talent, cost and connections, and a way…
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Battery storage tenders: what the first rounds have taught us
The first storage procurements in the region drew strong interest. The terms that worked, and the ones bidders priced heavily.
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AfCFTA: creating one African market
The African Continental Free Trade Area brings the African Union’s 55 member countries into a single market of about 1.3 billion people.
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