This document provides a continental overview of renewable energy and electricity systems in sub-Saharan Africa, situating the energy transition within the region’s development realities. Rather than presenting a normative framework, it maps the structural features, constraints, and trends shaping Africa’s evolving electricity landscape.
Positioned within global climate governance processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the labour-centred guidance of the International Labour Organization, and aligned with the equity principles embedded in the Paris Agreement, the overview examines how “just energy transition” agendas are being interpreted and operationalised across the continent.