Africa’s Solar Inflection Point

Macdonald Amoah and Payne Institute Director Morgan Bazilian write about how between June 2023 and June 2025, sub-Saharan Africa’s solar panel imports from China nearly tripled outside South Africa, rising from 3,734 MW to 11,248 MW. Twenty countries set individual import records.  They look at the trade data as its starting point and works outward. What is driving the import surge? Which countries are absorbing the volume, and why? May 29, 2026.