• Husk Power Systems plans to deploy one gigawatt of decentralised energy assets in Africa by 2030 using an artificial intelligence platform.
• The chief executive officer announced a plan to expand from Nigeria into up to 6 African countries, with a goal of raising $400 million.
• Husk Power Systems argues that Africa can leap directly to clean energy and that supportive policies will enable artificial intelligence-driven mini-grids to scale.

India’s Husk Power Systems revealed on November 25 in Rabat, Morocco,  an ambitious plan to scale artificial intelligence-driven decentralised energy solutions across the African continent, with Gambia as the next target. Speaking during a high-level panel, co-founder and chief executive officer Manoj Sinha confirmed that the company is seeking $400 million to finance its expansion into as many as 6 African countries, marking a significant shift in the pace and scale of private-sector engagement in distributed energy.

Sinha detailed the launch of Husk’s new artificial intelligence-powered decentralized energy resources platform, a technological leap designed to manage tens of thousands of mini grids, solar rooftops, commercial and industrial systems, and efficient household appliances across multiple markets. “We have evolved our technology into a unified system powered by our artificial intelligence network that can manage assets across the continent,” he said, underscoring how automation and data science will allow the company to operate at a continental scale.

Husk already operates 70 mini-grids in Nigeria and has become a leader in distributed clean energy in that market, with a pipeline of 150 megawatts under construction. The next phase, Sinha explained, is to look beyond Nigeria and expand rapidly into 5 to 6 new countries over the next 5 years. This expansion will be anchored by the company’s plan to deploy one gigawatt of decentralized energy infrastructure by thirty, a move that he said will create 25,000 direct jobs across rural and urban Africa.

Sinha framed Africa not as a late adopter, but as a uniquely positioned leapfrog market. He argued that the continent does not need to repeat the fossil-heavy pathway of global energy markets, noting that African economies can begin their growth phase with ninety to ninety-five percent renewable energy systems. This, he said, is what makes the continent a particularly fertile ground for decentralised solutions. “What is exciting about the African market is that you do not have to take the route global markets took,” he said. “You can start with clean energy from the beginning.”

He also spoke directly to governments, making a strong case for regulatory clarity, tax incentives, guarantees for repatriating foreign exchange, and frameworks that allow decentralised systems to interact with the central grid. These elements, he insisted, are essential to attract serious private capital. “Everything we heard from ministers was music to my ears,” he said, signalling Husk’s readiness for public-private partnership and its openness to engage with Mission three hundred countries looking to accelerate energy access.

As Mission three hundred aims to deliver electricity to three hundred million Africans by two thousand and thirty, companies like Husk are emerging as central actors in the drive to expand clean energy access beyond the reach of traditional grids. With artificial intelligence at its core, the company appears positioned to reshape how decentralised energy is deployed, monitored, and scaled across the continent.

Sinha closed with an invitation to governments and investors: a boardroom session scheduled for later in the week to explore partnership opportunities. It was less a courtesy than a call to action. In a forum filled with high ambition, Husk Power’s announcement stood out as a concrete, technology-driven pathway to accelerating universal access. The message was unmistakable: artificial intelligence-driven decentralized energy is ready to scale, and Africa is the market where it can happen fastest.

Idriss Linge