Renewable energy capacity target

STO-REC-STATC3952PT3 Research
300 billionwatts
forecast

Africa · 2030

BNEF projects renewable energy capacity target in the Africa at 300 billion watts in 2030.

Original source
Publisher
BNEF
Authority tier
T3 Research
Locator
Africa Power Transition Factbook 2024
Retrieved
16 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

The African Union wants to bring 300GW of renewables online by 2030, which will require immediate quadrupling of capacity deployment rates.

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APA
BloombergNEF. (2030). Climate Week and COP Public Research. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7
MLA
BloombergNEF. "Climate Week and COP Public Research." 2030, https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7.
Chicago
BloombergNEF. "Climate Week and COP Public Research." 2030. https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7.
BibTeX
@misc{bnef2030renewable6hm8n7, author = {{BloombergNEF}}, title = {Climate Week and COP Public Research}, year = {2030}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7}, note = {Original source: https://about.bnef.com/insights/climate-week-and-cop-public-research/. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }

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Primary Source

Publisher
BloombergNEF · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 3 · Industry & Research
Report
Climate Week and COP Public Research
Type
Press release
Published
Locator
Africa Power Transition Factbook 2024
Retrieved
16 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
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Verification & Integrity

Audit status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
17 September 2026
Last revision
17 September 2026
Archival URI
/stat/stat_C3952P976Q8KR9502E9P6HM8N7