(From Second Left) Jae Sun Yoo, Team Leader, Hyundai Motor M.East & Africa Headquarters Marketing&Communication Team; Dongwan Woo, Country Director of the KOICA Ghana Office; Kim Hyunjoo, Second Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea; Frederick Tei-Nobi, Acting Country Director of Plan International Ghana; and Ing. Dr. Eric Kofi Adzroe, Director-General of Ghana TVET Service; and Ben Honyenuga, Vice-Chancellor of Ho Technical University.
Hyundai Motor and KOICA launch ‘Hyundai-KOICA NextGen’ in Ghana to train skilled automotive technicians and strengthen the country’s workforce development system Under KOICA’s Inclusive Business Solution (IBS) program, which links corporate resources and strategies with official development assistance (ODA), Hyundai Motor and KOICA will jointly fund the KRW 5 billion … [continued]
Africa’s solar imports, rooftop imagery and customer-side market channels are beginning to reveal deployment that official capacity statistics miss.
Africa officially added about 4.5 GW of solar in 2025. It also imported about 18.2 GW of solar modules. Those numbers cannot simply be substituted for one another — panels sitting in warehouses or ports are not operating solar systems — but the gap is too large to dismiss as … [continued]
Empowering women through greater access to finance could “strengthen” households’ resilience to “climate shocks,” according to a new study. Published in Climate Risk Management, it analyses the impact of financial access on “women-headed households” in sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that where women had formal financial access — such as … [continued]
Gothenburg — Lynk & Co 08 partnered with QUEST DAKAR 2026, an automotive expedition held from July 15 to August 2, 2026, connecting Casablanca with Dakar across Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. As the official expedition vehicle, the Lynk & Co 08 was driven by professional rally drivers along one of … [continued]
The Chinese EV market has gotten gigantic. In June, 685,000 pure-electric vehicles were sold in the country, accounting for approximately 43% of China’s auto market. However, 2026 is a down year for the market. As such, Chinese EV companies have been working extra hard to get their cars into other … [continued]
South Africa went through a rough patch a couple of years ago when the country’s available electricity generation capacity was not sufficient to meet demand. This resulted in South Africa’s electric utility company, Eskom, implementing an electricity rationing schedule, infamously known as load shedding. This led to many homes and … [continued]
Ukko Renewable ready to implement long-term ambition to become a leading player in the energy transition across Asia The Emerging Africa and Asia Infrastructure Fund signed a senior secured debt financing agreement providing up to 50 million dollars to Ukko Renewable. The facility supports the development of renewable energy projects … [continued]
There may be a lot of denialists around the world, but millions of people are unfortunately bearing the brunt of climate change induced disruptions to their lives. Let’s look at Zambia, a country that made a conscious decision to have an electricity grid powered by renewable energy, mostly hydro. This … [continued]
Battery prices have fallen significantly over the past 15 years, making battery electric vehicles more competitive. Maarten Vinkhuyzen wrote that he still expects that battery prices will drop even further, by 70% in the next five years. This will have an effect on the retail prices the carmakers set to … [continued]
Florion, a first-of-its-kind South African energy intelligence business co-founded by Robert Futter, has launched in South Africa. Futter brings more than 20 years of advisory experience in energy, infrastructure, and project finance. Florion says the South African energy market is changing based on technology interventions, market reform/liberalisation, and flexible “complex” … [continued]
