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Analyst-led intelligence on African energy infrastructure.

Oct 30, 2026 · Analysis

How Customer Electricity Savings and Grid-Service Payments Shape South Africa’s Battery Aggregation Market

South Africa’s residential battery aggregation market links household savings and dependable grid services to the revenues and costs shaping a developing investment opportunity.

Timothy Agbaje, David Oni, and Oseiwe Ehiremhen · Read more
How Customer Electricity Savings and Grid-Service Payments Shape South Africa’s Battery Aggregation Market

Flagship reports

Africa Power Financial Benchmark 2026

Peer-normalised, USD-translated, time-series financials of 28 listed power companies across six cohorts.

June 2026

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 2026

Africa Energy Transition Investment Report 2025

Tracked $13.84 billion of disclosed investment activity across 306 deals in 43 African countries in 2025.

February 2026
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Oct 30, 2026
EI Research Desk: 876 assets classified by electricity end use, South Africa's residential battery market, e-mobility financing, and Egypt's industrial solar investment.
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Oct 23, 2026
EI Research Desk: 475 transaction participant links added, This week's deepdive, and Burundi’s US$1.4 billion distribution partnership.
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Oct 22, 2026
Revenue Recovery and Private Capital in Southern Africa’s Interconnector Pipeline
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Oct 15, 2026
EI Research Desk: 173 electricity tariff records added this week, mining-backed solar financing, Solarise Africa secures funding to expand in Uganda and Zambia.
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Oct 15, 2026
Private Investment in Morocco’s Transmission and Egypt’s Industrial Grid Connections
Analysis
Oct 9, 2026
EI Research Desk: 17 transactions added to the platform, solar financing concentrated in two markets, South Africa’s flexible power procurement, AXIAN’s regional solar PPA, and Gridworks’ Zambia–DRC interconnector investment plans.
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Oct 9, 2026
Lagos–Ogun’s Transmission Expansion: Potential Investment Routes Around Industrial Demand
Analysis
Oct 1, 2026
EI Research Desk: Coverage grows from 1,421 deals worth $65.63 billion to 2,179 worth $93.06 billion, commercial banks financing South African solar, industrial demand for private transmission, and the Global Grids Accelerator.
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Oct 1, 2026
The Demand Foundations for Private Transmission: What South Africa and Kenya’s Economic Corridors Reveal
Analysis
Sep 24, 2026
EI Research Desk: 438 Assets added to the EI platform, Chart of the Week, South Africa’s battery-storage contract, and Namibia’s Okatope solar project.
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Sep 18, 2026
EI Research Desk: Africa’s private transmission pipeline, Nigeria’s $550 million power-sector bond, Kamoa-Kakula’s solar-and-storage project
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