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That's a wrap on Kansanshi Marathon 2026.What a day Solwezi put on.It started before sunrise. Thousands of runners gathe...
09/05/2026

That's a wrap on Kansanshi Marathon 2026.

What a day Solwezi put on.

It started before sunrise. Thousands of runners gathering in the cool morning air, a town wide awake, the road ready. By the time the gun went off, the energy was unmistakable.

Our team was out there across every distance, holding their own and bringing home their medals. First-time runners and seasoned ones, all of them earning the kind of pride that only comes from following a start line all the way to the finish.

Back at the GreenCo stand, our Business Development team was deep in conversation. Clients, partners, and visitors stopped by throughout the morning. Talk about Zambia's industrial demand, about what a regional power market means for the copper belt, about how reliable clean energy reaches the businesses that need it most.

To FQM Zambia, Kansanshi Mining, ZCCM Investments Holdings Plc and every sponsor and partner who put this day together, thank you. Events of this scale take months of quiet work, and it showed.

To every runner who lined up this morning, congratulations. And to the people of Solwezi, thank you for the welcome.

A good day. A great race. See you next year.

The energy transition is not a sprint. It is a distance event. Run over years, through heat and fatigue, by people prepa...
08/05/2026

The energy transition is not a sprint. It is a distance event. Run over years, through heat and fatigue, by people prepared to keep their pace when the crowd thins.

That is why we like marathons.

This weekend, members of the Africa GreenCo team will be in Solwezi for the 2026 Kansanshi Marathon. What began in 2023 as the first marathon in Zambia's NorthWestern Province to be accredited by World Athletics has grown into a genuinely international event: 2,300 runners from across Zambia and the world, new routes, and a new 60+ age category that quietly pushes back on the idea that endurance has an expiry date.

Where the race is run matters too. NorthWestern Province is the heart of Zambia's mining economy, where energy demand meets industry, and where the case for reliable, clean, competitively priced power is made every day. Showing up here is not incidental to our work. It is part of it.

Good luck to every runner taking on 5, 10, 21, or 42 kilometres. And to our Happy People on the start line: pace yourselves.

The finish will come.

Africa's energy transition will not be unlocked one project at a time. It will be unlocked one market at a time.Regional...
06/05/2026

Africa's energy transition will not be unlocked one project at a time. It will be unlocked one market at a time.

Regional power pools, when they have depth and liquidity, deliver what individual deals cannot: lower average costs, more efficient dispatch, and a credible demand signal that brings investment forward. That is why traders and aggregators matter, and it is the work Africa GreenCo is committed to across Southern Africa.

Last week in Nairobi, Cathy Oxby, our Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Africa GreenCo, joined the conversation at Africa Investment Exchange (AIX): Power Systems & Markets, where regulators, market operators, financiers and developers gathered to examine the state of SAPP, EAPP and WAPP, and what it will take to deepen cross-border trade.

A few threads stood out across the two days:

· The role of traders in attracting investment, securing supply, and matching evolving customer demand profiles is increasingly central to how new generation gets financed.

· Regional integration carries real financial benefits where the pools function well: greater efficiency and lower average energy costs.

· Liquidity in the regional pools hinges on national regulations permitting regional participation, and the playing field across SAPP member countries is not yet level.

· Independent regulators, properly empowered, are essential to ensuring equal treatment and balancing the interests of different market participants.

Southern and Eastern Africa's energy future depends not only on new megawatts, but on the rules and structures that let those megawatts reach where they are most needed.

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Progress in Africa's energy sector is rarely a single breakthrough. It is the sum of quiet, compounding decisions made b...
05/05/2026

Progress in Africa's energy sector is rarely a single breakthrough. It is the sum of quiet, compounding decisions made by people who agree to keep talking, keep building, and keep each other accountable.

That is what gives forums like the Energy Forum for Africa - EFFA Conference their weight. They bring Zambia's energy ecosystem into one room: the Ministry of Energy Zambia, developers, engineers, financiers, and operators and industry peers. They create a rhythm of accountability, a shared moment to report on what has been done and set intention for what comes next.

Recently, our team members Vincent Sakeni, Business Development Officer and Osward Nzimah, Communications Officer joined the Project Progress Report and Media Launch Gala Dinner, marking the opening of EFFA Conference 2026. We are pleased to be partnering once again for the 2026 edition, alongside the Ministry of Energy and sector peers.

Every megawatt moved across the Southern African Power Pool, every cross-border trade settled, every new market mechanis...
01/05/2026

Every megawatt moved across the Southern African Power Pool, every cross-border trade settled, every new market mechanism designed, begins and ends with people.

The energy transition is often framed as a question of technology, finance, or policy. It is, at its core, a question of human work. The linemen who keep grids standing. The traders who hold their nerve through volatile settlement windows. The engineers who translate ambition into infrastructure. The analysts and operators who turn regulation into bankable opportunity. Southern Africa's clean power future will not be built by systems. It will be built by the people who run them.

At Africa GreenCo, we call our team our Happy People because we believe meaningful work, carried with conviction, is what moves a region forward. The same conviction lives in workers across our region, in Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, whether in power stations, on construction sites, in classrooms, clinics, farms, mines, or markets.

Today, on Labour Day in Zambia and Workers' Day across the region, we honour the people who show up, solve problems, and carry the weight of a nation's progress with quiet skill.

Happy Labour Day. Happy Workers' Day. Bonne Fête du Travail.

Renewal is easy to talk about. Harder to keep alive.That is the quiet lesson of this sector. Trust between counterpartie...
30/04/2026

Renewal is easy to talk about. Harder to keep alive.

That is the quiet lesson of this sector. Trust between counterparties. Regional market integration. Bankable cross-border trade. A power pool that pools. None of it grows on its own. It is tended, patiently, by people who choose to show up, day after day, long after the excitement of the launch has faded.

That is why, when someone new joins Africa GreenCo, we do not just hand over a laptop and a welcome email. Every Happy Person receives a Happy Pack, and inside it, a small live plant. Their plant. Their job is to water it, to keep it alive. A gentle, daily act of care that lives on their desk and, over time, becomes part of who they are here.

It is a small thing. But small things, repeated, are how big things are built. In a plant. In a team. In a regional energy market.

Rex, Benjamin and Shantel now have theirs, and we could not be happier to have them with us. Their plants will grow alongside them, a quiet measure of the care they bring to their work and the lives they are stepping into at GreenCo.

May your plants thrive, and may the energy you bring to this work grow deeper roots with every season.

Some leaders are remembered for the offices they held. Others are remembered for the values they carried into every room...
28/04/2026

Some leaders are remembered for the offices they held. Others are remembered for the values they carried into every room they entered. Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda belonged firmly to the second kind.

A teacher before he was a president. A pan-Africanist before the term was fashionable. A man who believed, deeply and publicly, that the freedom of one African nation was incomplete while another remained unfree. KK's Zambia opened its doors, and often its borders, to liberation movements across the region, at real cost to the country itself. That generosity of spirit shaped not only Zambia's identity, but the trajectory of Southern Africa as a whole.

Today, Zambia pauses to honour him. And in honouring him, the country reaffirms the values he stood for: humility, service, the courage to choose unity over division, and the conviction that Africa's progress is a shared project.

Africa GreenCo is proud to call Zambia home. The spirit of regional cooperation that KK championed lives on in the work of building a connected Southern African power market, where countries trade, plan, and grow together.

To our Zambian Happy People, partners, and friends, we join you in remembering a leader whose legacy still lights the way.

One Zambia, One Nation.

Freedom is not a single moment in history. It is something each generation has to keep building, in the choices a countr...
27/04/2026

Freedom is not a single moment in history. It is something each generation has to keep building, in the choices a country makes about how it lives, works, and grows together.

More than three decades on from 27 April 1994, the courage of that day still shapes the South Africa we know. A nation chose a shared future and journey that continues to inspire the entire continent. That spirit of unity, of choosing the harder, shared path, is what turned a moment into a movement, and a movement into a country.

The work of freedom lives in classrooms, in clinics, in boardrooms, in small businesses, and in the everyday decisions of South Africans who continue to invest in one another. It lives in a region that has learned, slowly and deliberately, that no country builds its future alone. And it lives, today, in the way South Africa is shaping one of the defining challenges of this generation: a just and inclusive energy transition.

Africa GreenCo is honoured to walk alongside South Africa on that journey. The partnerships we share, across utilities, regulators, developers, and communities, are part of a larger story of a region choosing connection over isolation, and possibility over many limitations.

To our South African Happy People, partners, and friends, today belongs to you. Thank you for the courage that brought the country here, and for the spirit you continue to bring to what comes next.

The electricity system of the future will not look like the one built for coal. That is not a policy aspiration. It is a...
24/04/2026

The electricity system of the future will not look like the one built for coal. That is not a policy aspiration. It is an engineering reality that is already unfolding in South Africa.

This geographic shift in generation from north to south is one of the most consequential structural changes in the region’s power sector. It changes where investment is needed, where transmission upgrades are critical, and where new market participants, including independent power producers and intermediary traders, will find the greatest opportunity.

Generation in the north will fall from 78% of national capacity in 2023 to 53% by 2034. The south will grow from 22% to 47%. Coal supply is being shut down in the north, replaced by renewables and gas in the south. Demand, however, remains concentrated in the north, creating new transmission corridors and investment requirements.

Southern Africa's power future will not be built market by market. It will be built across borders, or it will stall.The...
20/04/2026

Southern Africa's power future will not be built market by market. It will be built across borders, or it will stall.

The question of cross-border energy trade is not a technical one at its core. It is a question of frameworks, coordination, and trust. Who sets the rules? Who carries the risk? And how do aggregators, traders, and regulators create the conditions where private capital flows into regional power markets? These are the conversations that determine whether the energy transition in southern and eastern Africa becomes real infrastructure or remains a pipeline of stalled ambitions.

Africa GreenCo was built on the conviction that regional trade is the unlock. Not as an abstract ideal, but as a structured, bankable reality. That means being present in the rooms where market design is debated, policy is stress-tested, and new trading models are put to scrutiny.

On 29 and 30 April, Cathy Oxby, our Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, will join the Power Markets and Trade panel at the Africa Investment Exchange (AIX): Power Systems & Markets in Nairobi. Alongside regional regulators, development finance investors, and market architects, she will engage on:

• The evolving role of aggregators and traders in unlocking regional market access
• New business models emerging from national market reforms across Africa
• Opportunities for IPPs in interconnected power pools
• The specific dynamics shaping markets in Zambia, DRC, and the Copperbelt

The work of connecting these markets is long, layered, and worth it.

The Northern Cape is not short of energy resources. What it needs now is the architecture to turn those resources into j...
13/04/2026

The Northern Cape is not short of energy resources. What it needs now is the architecture to turn those resources into jobs, investment and long-term industrial growth.

That architecture is built at the intersection of policy, capital and private sector ex*****on. It requires government and industry to speak the same language about risk, timelines and bankability. And it requires the kind of deliberate, structured engagement that moves conversations from aspiration to commitment. That is the work South Africa's just energy transition depends on, and the Northern Cape is one of the most important places to do it right now.

Ricardo Hansby, Head of Corporate Affairs and Government Relations for South Africa at Africa GreenCo, will join the Energy Breakaway Session at the inaugural Northern Cape Investment & Jobs Conference in Kimberley from 13 to 15 April 2026.

The session will draw together voices from government, finance, infrastructure and the private sector to examine what it genuinely takes to unlock investment and employment in the region. Ricardo will be on the panel alongside:

• Isabel Fick, our Head of Trading and Operations at Africa GreenCo
• Gerhard Fourie, Chief Director of Green Industries at the DTIC
• Mameetse Masemola, Head of Infrastructure South Africa
• Zaid Railoun, Specialist for Power and Sustainable Solutions at Standard Bank
• Collins Nyamadzawo, Senior Stakeholder Specialist on the JET-IP Programme at the IDC

Government relations and corporate affairs are not support functions in the energy transition. They are the front line. Getting the policy conditions right is as important as getting the projects right, and Ricardo brings that perspective to a panel that needs it.

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