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Decarbonizing road passenger transport in Africa is key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  “Passenger vehicles are a major contributor to road transport emissions. Advances in battery technology, manufacturing, and supportive policies are driving battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption, while synthetic fuels are also being explored as a complementary low-carbon option, notably by major automakers such as Volkswagen,” says a recent study published by Nature energy. 

“Africa has long been perceived as a marginal solar market. The Africa Solar Outlook 2026 demonstrates that this perception no longer reflects reality. Solar is already far more widespread than previously believed, and Africa is now experiencing the fastest solar growth of any region worldwide.”

As the third-largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya has emerged as Africa’s leading example of anti-fossil-fuel leadership. With 90% of its grid powered by renewables, Kenya’s grid is more decarbonized than those of some wealthy European nations, where renewables account for about 63%. 

In the southern Tunisian city of Gabes, a green hydrogen project is in development, aiming to transform the local energy and economic landscape. However, this initiative faces objections from residents concerned about potential environmental risks, given Gabes’ history with polluting chemical industries.

Hurricane Melissa exposed the fragilities of Jamaica’s energy grid. When the hurricane hit on October 28, 2025, as a powerful category five storm, 540,000 customers, or 70% of Jamaicans on the island’s sole electricity grid, were left without power. Several transmission and distribution networks operated by the country’s only electricity provider, The Jamaica Public Service (JPS), were severely damaged.

Long known as an IT outsourcing hub, India is now emerging as a major data centre hotspot as new investments pour in. Despite generating around 20% of the world’s data, India hosts only 3% of global data centres. By the end of 2025, the country had amassed significant capital for new developments.

Africa's clean energy sector is advancing rapidly, from solar-powered villages to large-scale wind and solar farms. Africa holds vast, underutilized renewable energy potential—solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal—but is now investing in renewable energy and consolidating its share of global clean energy consumption. Though the continent is making great strides toward a greener future, it still faces significant challenges in transitioning to clean energy.

Though renewable energy has moved from momentum to maturity across Africa, virtual free-wheeling remains rare. Virtual freewheeling is the transport of electricity across existing grids for financial transactions (selling power from one location to another via shared lines), explains Brian Molefe, former chief executive of South Africa’s Eskom (2015 to 2016). Eskom is the largest power utility on the continent.

The South African public pension fund has been accomplishing this in several ways. The GEPF has invested in start-ups that add solar, wind, or biogas to South Africa’s grid, either as a sole or co-financier, since 2014.

Strive Masiyiwa, who sits on Netflix’s board , is Zimbabwe’s only billionaire but has reportedly not returned to his country of birth since 2000. However, earlier this month, he surprised market observers by announcing financing for a 300-hectare hybrid green energy and large-scale data center industrial park that will power AI and logistics operations. Startup owners are thrilled that green energy and big data infrastructure are breaking out of the Big 5 African nations (Ken

Pegasus believes emerging markets, where (as of 2025) electricity demand is expected to grow by 70% by 2050, driven by rising living standards, represents the next frontier of both climate impact and investor returns.

Startups that are not well-suited to venture capital but are hesitant to pursue debt financing can always return to a staple of early-stage financing: angel investors. In several ways, venture capital and angel investing appear similar, but their goals often differ.