Field Notes & Analysis
Stories, playbooks, and lessons learned while financing resilient infrastructure, modernizing utilities, and building the data rails that keep Africa moving forward.
Browse concise briefings curated for operators, investors, and policymakers. Each post includes the context, tools, and partners we rely on to deliver measurable outcomes.
Renewable ambitions stall long before shovels hit the ground because pre-feasibility documentation costs six figures and drags on for a year. Agentic AI, especially Google's Gemini 3, can now execute those assessments end to end, blending geospatial data, engineering schematics, and financial models into lender-ready packs that keep projects alive.
Gemini 3's slow, deliberative 'System 2' thinking paired with real-time multimodal sensing unlocks better transmission routing decisions and radically cheaper field verification for African mini-grids.
Because Gemini 3 plugs into every layer of Google's ecosystem, it can orchestrate renewable energy workflows end to end—from Google Earth siting to Drive documentation—while respecting on-device privacy needs and freeing consultants to solve the human side of climate deployment.
