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9/8/2023 Feature / Sara Siddeeq

Kenya’s path to universal power – a blueprint for sub-Saharan Africa?

Over half of sub-Saharan Africans live without electricity access – and this situation has worsened recently. However, there is regional disparity and some countries have achieved impressive energy access levels. Here, Sara Siddeeq presents Kenya as an inspirational example.

Skills, education and training

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24/9/2025 Feature / Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu

An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap

As the world races towards net zero, Africa’s transition must not only be rapid but just. With the right approach, young Africans will drive this just transition for themselves. An example of that is a new internship model, piloted in 2025, whose low-cost design, adaptability to different geographies and partial cost-recovery mechanism through employer reimbursements make it a candidate for replication across Africa, writes founder Promise Chukwukadibia Nwogu.

Access to energy

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6/11/2024 Feature / Gemma Fox

A tale of two transitions: The Energy Institute’s Country Transition Tracker highlights the disparity of energy challenges faced across the world

Since taking custodianship of the Statistical Review of World Energy, the Energy Institute has published alongside it the Country Transition Tracker, which assesses the data of around 80 of the world’s largest energy-consuming countries to build a picture of progress towards targets set under the Paris Agreement. While the various metrics published highlight the extent of each country’s progress towards net zero, they do not tell the whole story. Here, Senior Energy Project Lead Gemma Fox discusses two countries that appear to stand at opposite ends of the energy transition spectrum: Iceland and Bangladesh.

Access to energy

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1/10/2025 Feature / Charlie Bush

What’s cooking? LPG and the clean cooking challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Almost one-third of the world’s population, around 2.3 billion people, still rely on open fires or rudimentary stoves to prepare meals. In sub-Saharan Africa, four out of five people cook with wood, charcoal, animal dung or agricultural waste. Charlie Bush considers some of the options available for cleaner cooking, in particular the role of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a transitional energy solution.

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17/1/2024 Feature / Andrew Mourant

Africa must set and follow its own energy transition agenda

We are becoming familiar with the concept of a ‘just’ energy transition, one that treats populations with different needs fairly. But for the large and diverse continent of Africa, it also needs to be based on an agenda developed by Africans, writes Andrew Mourant.

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17/1/2024 Feature / Kristina Skierka

Powering progress: tackling energy poverty with a decentralised renewable energy model

Energy poverty is a significant challenge worldwide, not just limiting electricity but access to essential components of daily life. Here, Kristina Skierka, CEO of nonprofit renewable energy organisation Power for All, explains how a project to develop decentralised renewable energy combined with traditional grid systems in rural Uganda led to more rapid electrification of public and commercial facilities, and at reduced cost, compared to the traditional approach.

Energy transition

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10/7/2024 Feature / Ban Ki-moon,Mary Robinson

Fixing climate change: the world leaders’ perspective

Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and former Ireland President Mary Robinson discussed climate change and related issues in a Chatham House panel discussion on 3 May. Both are now part of global advisory group The Elders, working as, respectively, Deputy Chairman and Chairman. Below is an edited and abridged account of the session, introduced and moderated by Bernice Lee, Chatham House Research Director – Futures.

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31/7/2024 Feature / Samuel Okocha

Nigeria pushes for switch to clean cooking, despite energy market challenges

The release of a National Clean Cooking Policy in Nigeria in April 2024 is poised to impact the energy sector and environment of West Africa’s dominant country. Designed to offer clean cooking systems to the 30 million households in Nigeria that currently burn wood in their kitchens, it could transform the economy of Nigeria and West Africa, write Samuel Okocha, Andreia Nogueira and Keith Nuthall.

Solar

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10/7/2024 Feature / Mohua Mukherjee

The evolution of rooftop solar energy in India

Oxford Energy Senior Research Fellow Mohua Mukherjee explains where rooftop solar (RTS) fits in today’s energy sector in India. Why are RTS projects lagging far behind utility-scale solar projects in the country? What is being done by the government to increase the pace of RTS installations and why might it succeed?

International Energy Awards

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20/3/2024 Feature

Winners of the 2024 International Energy Awards

The Energy Institute exists to create a better energy future. In its 25th year, these prestigious awards recognise the best the sector has to offer, and for the first time were presented at the International Energy Week Dinner on 29 February 2024 at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London. This year’s outstanding winners are profiled below.

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Kenya’s path to universal power – a blueprint for sub-Saharan Africa?

An internship model to close Africa’s green skills gap

A tale of two transitions: The Energy Institute’s Country Transition Tracker highlights the disparity of energy challenges faced across the world

What’s cooking? LPG and the clean cooking challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Africa must set and follow its own energy transition agenda

Powering progress: tackling energy poverty with a decentralised renewable energy model

Fixing climate change: the world leaders’ perspective

Nigeria pushes for switch to clean cooking, despite energy market challenges

The evolution of rooftop solar energy in India

Winners of the 2024 International Energy Awards