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African Transmission and Power Pools 2026: WAPP, EAPP, SAPP, and the Regional Integration Opportunity

22 January 2026 ·13 min read ·By ABA Editorial
Energy and Power

Africa's regional power pools (WAPP in West Africa, EAPP in Eastern Africa, SAPP in Southern Africa) coordinate cross-border electricity trade among member countries. Transmission infrastructure remains the bottleneck that determines whether generation capacity can actually reach demand. This report maps the power pool architecture, the interconnection projects in development, and the integration opportunity.

African electricity systems have traditionally been organized at the national level, with each country operating its own generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure largely independently. Over the last two decades, regional power pools have begun to coordinate cross-border electricity trade among member c...

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