Power market intelligence for a challenging environment

Identify opportunities for investment and sales with detailed data and project information on more than 7,000 power plants and projects.

About Live Data


African Energy Live Data is an innovative online database featuring continually updated and verified data on more than 7,000 power plants and projects and the organisations behind them.

All entries correspond to a power plant on the ground that African Energy’s Live Data team has investigated, verified and subjected to a rigorous fact checking process.

More than a subscription-based data platform

We can tailor our data offering for a wide range of uses including support for sales and investment opportunities, energy modelling, mapping, sector and competitor analysis or case studies.

If you are looking for more context, our experienced consultancy team can provide additional insights including demand and supply forecasting, political and economic analysis and market entry strategies. 

Please contact Alex Wark to discuss your needs or to arrange a demonstration of the platform.

How Live Data can help you
  • Understand a project’s stage of development and assess its potential as a commercial opportunity based on independently researched and verified information.
     
  • Find projects matching your market profile and build informed country-by-country market development plans.
     
  • Evaluate project portfolios of owners, developers, offtakers and financiers.
     
  • Understand the competitive environment for financing, equipment supplies or other contractors.
     
  • Observe the location of projects and plants and their proximity to actual and planned transmission infrastructure.
     
  • Improve your market intelligence by discovering and tracking industry trends.
     
  • Deliver more productive power sector analysis through instant access to the latest downloadable power sector statistics based on actual and planned projects.
     
  • Compare countries to optimise investment strategies and support strategic planning by analysing country data from 2010 and projections five years into the future, alongside key economic & demographic statistics.
     
  • Get support from the Live Data research team – Learn more about projects; Obtain Excel (+ other format) data downloads; Need additional materials?- just ask, we are here to help.
Key features
  • Detailed profiles of more than 7,000 projects.
    • Key data: status, location (province, locality), installed capacity, fuel, technology, design electricity production, reservoir capacity (hydropower), ownership type, connection type, critical milestones (including commercial operations date, financial close), connecting substations.
    • Explore a project’s background and project history, financing, financial summary, equity holders, offtakers, contractors, electricity production.
    • Assess developers and potential project partners by following ownership structure of projects from SPVs through to ultimate beneficial owners.
    • Links to African Energy newsletter articles.
       
  • Organisation profiles
    • Detailed entries for the organisations and entities developing, building, supplying, financing and investing in, power projects across Africa –developers, utilities, ministries, regulators, commissions, funds, banks, DFIs, contractors and service providers.
    • Explore an organisation’s power assets, power asset sales, project financing, contracts, subsidiaries, offtakers.
       
  • Conduct integrated searches for projects and the organisations behind them.
    • Identify projects by country, province, size, fuel, or technology type and see whether they are operating, under construction, planned, halted or ceased operation.
    • Search projects by connection type, procurement method, ownership type and check on commercial operation dates (actual and planned) and financial close dates.
    • Search by company type and display projects where the entity is a contractor, an equity holder, an offtaker or involved in financing.
       
  • Access to the latest power sector statistics through the Data tool
    • Analyse electricity sector vital statistics and demographics alongside the project pipeline.
    • View five-year fuel and technology pipelines.
    • Analyse trends from 2010 to five years into the future.
    • Compare countries to optimise investment strategies.
    • Identify gaps in the market and potential oversupply risks.
    • Download data for use in pitches and presentations.
       
  • Interactive map interface including plant location and existing & planned transmission lines.
     

  • Set up and receive emailed notifications of new and updated power generation projects follow projects by country, fuel or a combination of the two.
     

  • Data is generated from the ground up, so all figures correspond to a power plant or project on the ground that African Energy has investigated and verified - read more about how we source and maintain our data.

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Subscription options

African Energy Live Data country subscription

Access to detailed entries for power generation plants and projects for a specific country


Access to the latest aggregated power sector statistics for a specific country, which can be analysed, compared with economic and demographic trends and downloaded.


Choose between 6 or 12 months’ access.

Regional African Energy Live Data subscription

Unrestricted access to detailed entries for power generation plants and projects for one particular region


Access to profiles and portfolios of the organisations and entities developing, building, financing and investing in, power projects across your selected region


Access to the latest aggregated power sector statistics for the countries within your selected region, which can be analysed, compared with economic and demographic trends and downloaded.


Choose between 6 or 12 months’ access

Full African Energy Live Data subscription

Full access to detailed entries for more than 7,000 power generation plants and projects.


Full access to profiles and portfolios of the organisations and entities developing, building, financing and investing in, power projects across Africa.


Full access to the latest aggregated power sector statistics, which can be analysed, compared with economic and demographic trends and downloaded.


Additional benefits

Free Africa Investment Exchange (AIX) membership – a year-round forum for trusted debate and insight, curated by African Energy's senior consultants and analysts.


Don't see an option that best fits your company?
Please contact Alex Wark for a tailored quote and a full platform demonstration.

Frequently asked questions

What information is included in African Energy Live Data?

Detailed project data with concise background and project history, installed capacity, project pipeline, ownership, connection type, procurement method, financing, GIS location, fuel, technology, critical milestones (including commercial operations date, financial close), capex and contractual data

Organisations data, providing access to profiles and portfolios of the organisations and entities developing, building, financing and investing in, power projects across Africa – developers, utilities, ministries, regulators, commissions, funds, banks, DFIs, contractors and service providers

Access to the latest power statistics through the Data Tool –  country level power data, aggregated from the projects and plants in the database, can be analysed, compared with economic and demographic trends and downloaded: View five-year fuel and technology pipelines; Analyse trends from 2010 to five years into the future; Compare countries to optimise investment strategies

For a complete list of fields please see the Data Catalogue

How can I use Live Data to understand project trends?

Gathering key information about the history, progress and financing of later stage or operating plants can help users assess possible participation and understand the likely trajectory of similar projects in the pipeline.

African Energy Live Data’s Data tool is designed for this purpose, creating custom reports which are ready to print and take away.

The Data Tool allows subscribers to aggregate and breakdown the project data from the platform and compare trends at a country and regional level from 2010 to 2025.

Alongside live figures from the database, the data tool allows comparisons with economic and demographic trends, as well as other electricity sector vital statistics such as access to power. This means subscribers can place their projects into a strategic context and quickly assess fundamental prospects for business in every market on the continent.

Statistics in the Data Tool are generated from the ground up, so all figures correspond to a power plant on the ground that the Live Data team has investigated.

Explore the Data Tool further

How can Live Data help investors and lenders?

Investors, lenders and fund managers can identify, evaluate and compare planned projects at any stage of development by searching for key dates or following the progress of main procurement programmes in relevant countries.

Use the detailed project pages to assess developers and potential project partners by following ownership structure of projects from SPVs through to ultimate beneficial owners.

Look through potential lenders and equity partners and review their track records in supporting power projects in Africa.  

How can Live Data help contractors and equipment, technology and service suppliers?

Contractors and equipment, technology and service suppliers can use the detailed search functionality to identify projects matching their market profile.

The results can be used to build informed country-by-country market development plans: Identify lists of target projects and obtain an understanding of potential requirements from the detailed project pages.

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Set up power project alerts

Set up and receive emailed notifications of new and updated power generation projects – follow projects by country, fuel or a combination of the two.

Set up a free alert now

Request a Live Data demonstration

Contact Alex Wark to discuss your needs or to arrange a demonstration of the platform.

Tel: +44 1424 721667

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FAQs

How we source our data

Looking for a bespoke package?

Live Data is more than a subscription-based web platform.

We can tailor our data offering for a wide range of uses including support for sales and investment opportunities, energy modelling, mapping, sector and competitor analysis or case studies.

Please contact Alex Wark to discuss your needs or to arrange a demonstration of the platform.

Tel: +44 (0)1424 72166

Submit project information

We welcome updates from stakeholders about their projects. To submit or verify project-level information please contact Camilla Nytun.