Optimising energy reliability for African manufacturing

Sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure challenge is gradually evolving, with the Africa Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) score increasing by 50% from 2003 to 2025. It has been a slow, uphill challenge, impacted by funding, governance, and legacy issues, and...

Is materials risk killing African renewables’ returns?

Africa’s booming renewable energy market is sitting on a hidden risk that could wipe out much of the upside returns that investors expect from the popular small to mid‑size solar‑plus‑battery plants. Frederik Theron, chief operating officer of Sustain Group, warns...

Sustainable, liquid-cooled data centres for next-gen workloads

Today, single AI query uses roughly 10-times the electricity of a typical Internet search, and demand is climbing at lightning speed. By Steven Santini, secure power vice-president at Schneider Electric Sub-Saharan Africa In fact, projections suggest data centres...