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Strong investment in power infrastructure drove a 2.2% increase in global energy employment in 2024, but rising labour shortages now pose a risk to future project delivery, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) ‘World Energy Employment 2025’ report, published on December 5. The report states that energy sector jobs reached 76-million worldwide in 2024, an increase of more than five-million since 2019. Over the past five years, the sector has accounted for 2.4% of all net new jobs created globally. The power sector generated most of this growth, accounting for three-quarters of new positions and overtaking fuel supply as the largest employer in energy.

In this article, GE Vernova grid solutions chief strategy and growth officer for the Middle East and Africa Bernard Dagher writes that meeting Africa’s rising electricity demand will require a significant expansion of generation and transmission infrastructure and that digitisation could play a role in delivering cost savings and efficiency improvements. The continent is projected to increase electricity generation from 939 TWh in 2024 to 1 446 TWh in 2035 – an increase of 54% in less than a decade (IEA World Energy Outlook 2025). Delivering this capacity to consumers requires a substantial commitment to grid infrastructure development. This development goes beyond traditional transmission and distribution lines; it involves creating a grid prepared for a world that is decarbonising and electrifying.

Making headway in the Namibian energy sector, renewable-energy solutions provider Sustainable Power Solutions’ (SPS’s) latest project – the 10 MW Maxwell solar power plant – is a wheeling project that could signal the evolution of Namibia’s energy transition.   The Maxwell plant, which was successfully commission in May 2025, will be providing clean solar power to gold producer B2Gold’s Otjikoto mine until 2031 and will produce about 26 GW/h – or 26 000 MW/h – of solar power a year.

An operational update, released by exploration company Rhino Resources Namibia in October, reported the discovery of a high liquid-yield gas condensate during an offshore drilling campaign on Block 2914A of the Orange basin, Namibia. Commenting on the update, Rhino CEO Travis Smithard said: “[We] are delighted to announce the discovery of a high liquid-yield gas condensate in an excellent quality reservoir at the Volans-1X well.”

Renewable energy project solutions company Harmattan Renewables is involved in the Mariental and Greenam solar PV plants, providing due diligence services, and is currently Lenders’ Technical Adviser on the Rosh Pinah 5 MW solar plant, demonstrating its ability to capitalise on Namibia’s rapidly emerging renewable-energy market. The company seeks to leverage its experience to capitalise on Namibia’s renewable-energy sector’s potential – particularly in the solar energy space, as it is the most abundant renewable resource – helping to cement the future of energy and electricity generation in Namibia in the long term. This, in addition to offering complementary support to the wind energy sector.