Dave Jones ✓
@CleanPowerDave · London · joined 31 Mar 2014
Co-founder @Ember_Energy💚 Chief analyst tracking global electricity transition👍 Electricity analyst since 2000, still learning🤓
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Dear Big Oil-
Did you notice China's ICE car sales are down 30% year-to-date? https://t.co/mFE9qhXrE4
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NEW: "The Age of Power"
Infotech and electrotech need to be thought of as one.
99 new slides to melt your brain...🤯 https://t.co/fG8fYGzvoB
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this is the price for which diesel is currently searching https://t.co/prCEGe3raX
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@CleanPowerDave From what I've heard its mostly african businesses that install rooftop solar. They before would be running Diesel generators in order to have reliable electricity for production and cooling.
Now they massively switch to solar + battery, with really fast pay off
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In 3 1/2 hours, Joel and I will be chatting on this, so do come and join us..
https://t.co/oOcY6o8Yh8
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So big change is happening for Africa!
The scale up of solar installations should spur more electricity demand growth too, creating huge human benefits.
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Here is the full report out today
And of course we also published the dataset here #opendata
Thanks so much to Joel Nana from African Tech Futures Lab, it was a pleasure writing this with you.☺️
https://t.co/fKxX9lDwo8 https://t.co/2D6UUftILK
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The exports of solar **panels** from China to Africa is pretty robust data, but the same is NOT true of cells and wafer exports.
Whatever you do, don't look at Chinese cells+wafer exports to Africa and think they are being manufactured into panels;) https://t.co/3Fq1nJuKY4
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The smaller manufacturing markets are also increasing.
And these ARE predominately for African installations.
It's rising in line with Africa's solar growth - so the proportion of Africa's solar panels made in Africa stays at 6%. Which still leaves 94% made in China. https://t.
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Africa’s solar panel manufacturing will quadruple in 2026 - but for export, not for African rooftops.
Output will reach around 3.5 GW in 2026, a fifth of what Africa installs, led by new plants in Egypt and Tanzania aimed at the US market. https://t.co/AkCgnt3psF
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There is, however no doubt this boom is happeneing.
For example, this is how it shows up in companies and installer data.. https://t.co/PHdmcG8XDu
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One driver for distributed solar is the high cost of diesel in the energy crisis.
Africa spent $2.4b importing Chinese panels in last 12 months; generating the same electricity from diesel would cost around that EVERY THREE MONTHS.
Solar+batteries are the new diesel generator.
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And distributed solar is difficult to measure https://t.co/uQCeuibHMC
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3/4's of Africa’s solar growth is likely from distributed solar
That’s because only a quarter of new solar can be explained by utility-scale and off-grid solar.
Even in Egypt with lots of utility solar, still 43% of its solar growth is estimated to be distributed. https://t.co/
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Only three countries - South Africa, Tunisia and Tanzania - publish some solar data monthly or quarterly. 🤷♂️
It’s increasingly common to do this internationally - Ember tracks 25 countries across the world that already report solar capacity monthly
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However, international reporting is only be as good as national reporting, and that is poor.
We could only find official reporting for national solar capacity for 36 out of 54 countries; only 14 for 2025, and even those 14 seem to underestimate the rise in solar. https://t.co/yk
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Half of the estimated rise in solar is missing from official statistics.
Ember forecasts annual installations in 2026 will rise another 45%, potentially increasing this gap further. https://t.co/FcWoZjYyoS
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Batteries are coming.
In the last two years, the value of solar panel exports doubled.. and battery exports quadrupled🔋
Africa now imports more $ of batteries than solar panels from China.
The largest markets are Nigeria+DRC, where 🇨🇳battery exports far exceed solar exports. h
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2026 new solar generation can meet Africa’s historic electricity demand growth💪
2026’s new solar will generate c.23TWh/year - 2.3% of Africa’s electricity, above the 2.2% average demand growth of 2014 to 2024.
In many countries, solar will more-than meet demand growth.. https:/
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Solar is now the single biggest addition to grid capacity in many African countries..
..Senegal will add solar capacity from 2023 to 2026 equivalent to almost 80% of its entire 2023 grid capacity, with DRC and Kenya adding more than half. https://t.co/alTBo7rLxd
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This is happening everywhere in Africa:
36 countries are expected to install record solar in 2026.
19 countries are expected to see y-o-y growth of over 100% - including 544% in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 282% in Zimbabwe, 176% in Egypt and 117% in Zambia. https://t.
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That new methodology makes it possible to estimate solar installations in Africa.
And with the 6 month lag, we can already estimate full-year 2026.
This shows 17 GW of solar was installed in 2026 - a 45% rise y-o-y.
Equal to around 100,000 solar panels installed every day🤯 h
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This report introduces a new methodology, showing around 73% of Chinese imports globally have been installed, with an average six-month delay https://t.co/cy4DvQc6M4
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Chinese exports of solar panels to Africa surged in the 12 months to June 2026... https://t.co/cMTKvHrpmi
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OUT TODAY: The take-off in African solar that official statistics can’t yet see
2026 is on track for +45% in solar installations, setting new records in 36 countries.
New methodology reveals 3/4 of growth is distributed solar, much of which is missing from official data..🧵 http
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SOON | What's really driving #Africa’s solar boom?☀️
Joint experts from Ember & African Tech Futures Lab as we introduce a methodology to estimate solar installations and discuss what it means for energy planning across the continent.
Register now! 👇
https://t.co/i9IVmPtrWT htt
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| Mediana de visualizações por post | 730 | 924 | 0.79× |
| Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores) | 3.85% | 3.62% | 1.06× |
| Taxa de engajamento | 3.84% | 1.52% | 2.53× |
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