Flagship report
Africa Power Financial Benchmark 2026
Peer-normalised, USD-translated, time-series financials of 28 listed power companies across six cohorts.
June 2026Read the report →
Making African Energy Markets Legible
The data and analysis behind Africa’s energy investment decisions.
Analyst-led coverage of energy transition markets, capital, assets, and policy across all 54 African countries, with evidence-backed records built for investment analysis, diligence, and strategic planning.
Read by analyst teams at 50+ institutions, including
IEAWorld BankPIDGAIIMCrossBoundaryHusk PowerSchneider ElectricGIZStanbic IBTCMeristem
Flagship reports
Analyst reports built for decision clarity, strategic planning, and IC memos.
Flagship report
Africa's Import Tariffs and the Energy Transition
Import duty and value-added tax across 15 markets, 80 commodities, and twelve years of tariff data.
May 2026Read the report →
Flagship report
Africa Energy Transition Investment Report 2025
Tracked $13.84 billion of disclosed investment activity across 306 deals in 43 African countries in 2025.
February 2026Read the report →
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Deal benchmarking & IC prep
Pull comparable transactions, benchmark tariffs, profile sponsors, and trace co-investor networks before your investment committee.
Market sizing & country diligence
Quantify capital deployed by country, technology, and instrument. Compare regulatory regimes, capacity outlooks, and program pipelines side by side.
Pipeline & activity monitoring
Live feed of announcements, financial closes, COD events, and tariff resets across the names you watch.
Latest analysis
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Analysis
A Landed Cost Breakdown of Solar in South Africa and Kenya, and What Sets Them Apart
South Africa and Kenya have taken markedly different approaches to importing solar equipment. While South Africa applies import duties and VAT, Kenya exempts solar modules from both but imposes other import levies and faces higher freight costs. This analysis compares the landed cost of importing…
EI Research · Jul 235 min read
Analysis
A Landed Cost Breakdown of Solar in Nigeria and What Sets the Price
Imported modules and inverters reach a Nigerian developer site at $0.16 per watt, 14 percent over the factory price, and none of it is import duty or value-added tax. This analysis builds the delivered cost line by line and shows that the number is set by the equipment and the currency, and that it…
EI Research · Jul 168 min read
Analysis
South Africa’s Curtailment Surge Is Rewriting Which Renewables a Bank Will Fund
South Africa's renewable programme rests on a twenty-year take-or-pay contract that shifts curtailment risk from the developer to Eskom. It is a take-or-pay deal, which means Eskom pays a plant for the energy the grid tells it not to send, with that reimbursement sized for curtailment of about four…
EI Research · Jul 911 min read
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