The NASA satellite map of the world at night shows blazing networks of light across North America and Europe. But Africa remains the dark continent. Despite the United Nations’ Millennium ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: South Africa's economy is not so good at all because its power grid is collapsing. The president there is considering declaring a national state of disaster.

South Africa's plan to expand its power grid, now the biggest bottleneck to replacing coal with renewables, has hit a snag: finding investors to lend the necessary $21 billion to a near-bankrupt ...

Under the more optimistic scenarios, Africa can get over 60 percent of its power from renewables by 2050, despite rapid growth in demand. Doing so, however, requires following through on ...

South Africa has a generation capacity of approximately 58 GW – enough to power 26 million kettles concurrently – mostly made up of Eskom’s coal-burning power plants.

Africa's first grid-connected biogas plant powers up By Geoffrey Kamadi January 10, 20171:31 AM PSTUpdated January 10, 2017 ...