Malcy31 Oct 2025 19:08
Chariot
Chariot has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ACWA Power, one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies, to explore the creation of a southern African sustainable energy business. • The partnership will aim to develop, own and operate transitional power assets across renewable energy, battery storage and gas-to-power, and the energy generated will be sold to national grids, corporate customers and energy traders • Initial target countries include South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania • This strategic collaboration will leverage ACWA Power’s and Chariot’s technical, operational, and financing expertise to unlock investment opportunities and deliver a portfolio of scalable energy projects across the region With the initial principles now agreed, both parties are committed to concluding binding agreements. While there is no certainty that this MoU will lead to a definitive agreement, good progress is being made toward the next stage of documentation. Chariot will provide further updates as appropriate.
Adonis Pouroulis, CEO of Chariot commented,
“We are delighted to announce this MoU with ACWA, one of the leading global players in renewables. We see significant potential in combining our respective strengths to build a meaningful and impactful energy business across southern Africa. With the largest renewable footprint outside China, ACWA Power brings exceptional capability and reach across the energy spectrum, and we share a common vision to harness Africa’s resources to deliver competitive, accessible and sustainable power. This partnership also represents an important step as we advance the proposed separation of the Chariot Group into two distinct entities. It could form a key part of our future power generation platform, and we look forward to developing this relationship over the longer term.” This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU R
More good news from Chariot who are taking great strides in the renewable business and as they say, ‘building a meaningful and impactful energy business across southern Africa’. This looks to be a potentially really good deal, ACWA is one of the biggest players in renewables across the globe and is now moving into southern Africa and appears to have chosen Chariot as its partner.
With ACWA identifying the area as potentially lucrative I am happy to have been so positive about the area that Chariot has chosen to place so many chips, clearly ACWA agreed and they have a track record in northern Africa, the Middle East and central Asia to go on.
I think that we now have some serious visibility of progress for Chariot, I am expecting the long-awaited financing of the South African renewable business pretty soon and that changes everything. I would expect that milestone to be followed by the split of the two businesses, each fully justified in their own right.
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