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Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned

Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and a pipeline of announced projects exceeding 100GW. Commissioned capacity is precisely zero megawatts. BETAR investigates the regulatory failures, financing gaps, and cost economics blocking the continent’s most-discussed but least-delivered energy frontier.

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Africa's $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

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Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

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April 7, 2026

Twelve African countries are building or approving $50 billion in LNG and gas infrastructure. The economic case is defensible. The climate finance cost — in DFI conditionality, NDC budget erosion, and lost carbon credit revenue — is not fully priced in.

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Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned

Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance

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