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Our Story

Globeleq is powering Africa’s growth by developing and operating utility-scale power plants across the continent.

Founded in 2002, Globeleq is a power industry leader, owning, developing, operating or acquiring interests in multiple power facilities worldwide. Since 2015, Globeleq has solely focused on the African continent. By implementing various generation technologies in different geographic locations, Globeleq has a unique perspective and strong foundation for developing new capacity and building a sustainable portfolio of energy projects.

Globeleq aims to be the trusted, reliable, and committed partner of choice within the African private power industry. To achieve this we are planning to add significant MWs of new power generation over the next decade with a focus on the energy transition to cleaner energy sources. In addition, through our country and community operations, Globeleq significantly contributes to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

With the support and expertise of our staff operating out of our London head office, our regional offices in Abidjan, Cairo, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Johannesburg, Maputo and Nairobi, and our 16 power plants located in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania, we currently generate 1,769 MW; are constructing 485 MW and have another 2,000 MW of new power projects in development. Globeleq has an experienced management team with an on-the-ground presence and a full suite of world-class in-house expertise across multiple technologies.

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Our Values

Our values guide every business decision and drive our behaviour. We actively live the values of safety, integrity, excellence, unity, sustainability, and fulfilment.

  • Safety – Safety is fundamental to everything we do. Safety always comes first in all of our activities.
  • Integrity – Integrity is central to all that we do. We act with honesty, openness and transparency. We maintain the highest ethical standards. We say what we do and we do what we say.
  • Excellence – We work to be a leader in our field. We learn from our mistakes and we seek continuous improvement. To attain excellence, we ensure our people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. We strive for excellence in all that we do.
  • Unity – Our diversity is our strength. We are united by our purpose and shared objectives. We treat everyone with respect. Together we are stronger.
  • Sustainability – We invest for the long term in economically viable businesses that we manage to the highest safety, environmental and operational standards. We are accountable for our actions. We seek to make a positive contribution to our local communities and other stakeholders to create a sustainable business in which we can all take pride.
  • Fulfilment – We aim to achieve job fulfilment. Working in an open environment enables innovation and creative business solutions. We are self-driven and self-reliant. We seek to enable our people to make a difference.

Our Partners

As we power Africa’s growth, we are supported by our shareholders, British International Investment (BII) (70%) and Norfund (30%), the development finance institutions of the UK and Norway.

Thanks to many years of global and local experience, we have established sound industry partnerships with many reputable companies. These relationships enable us to create practical solutions in our market. Our industry partners include:

  • Financial investors
  • Fuel suppliers
  • Technology partners

BUSINESS

Globeleq partners with organisations that have complementary capabilities and operating skills, adding to, rather than duplicating, our key expertise and experience.

Our business partners share our commitment to ethical, safe, and sustainable working practices, and meet our stringent compliance and background checks. We expect and encourage our business partners to act in a way that is consistent with our Code of Conduct, as we do with our employees.

SECTOR PLAYERS

Globeleq adopts a partnership approach with governments, regulators, utilities, and community-based organisations and strives to understand the unique needs of each country where we develop and operate power projects.

This enables us to customise our approach: Choosing the best technology and infrastructure design; while aligning our social, economic and enterprise development strategies to power the region, and in turn, its growth.

 

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Our Awards

We are proud to share our awards for developing and operating power plants across the continent.

Windbar Award

Windaba Award 2023

Globeleq South Africa Management Services and Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm – Environmental Stewardship Award
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PFI Awards 2021

Middle East and Africa - African Power Deal of the Year - Temane Power Project
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IJ Global Awards 2021

Sponsor of the year – Europe & Africa
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IJ Global Awards 2021

Power deal of the year - Africa - Temane Power Project
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IJ Global Awards 2020

African Power deal of the year - Azito Phase IV