Energy

Ghana’s renewed effort to attract upstream investment, stabilise its electricity market and expand indigenous participation in the energy industry will come under sharper commercial focus when African Energy Week 2026 convenes in Cape Town from October 12 to 16.

The Africa Energy Technology Centre (AETC) has unveiled an ambitious agenda to transform Africa into a global producer of energy technologies, securing the backing of President John Dramani Mahama for its flagship Africa Energy Technology Conference.

“The real tariff question in Africa is not simply whether electricity is expensive. It is whether consumers are paying for efficient power supply — or for losses, debt, weak governance and poor planning.”