The issue leads with a series of articles on Zambia, where prolonged drought has profoundly impacted hydroelectric power output.
The government is enacting reforms to mitigate the crisis, most significantly increasing tariffs in October on an emergency basis – a move which could pave the way for permanent cost-reflective tariffs.
Developers are also advancing a solar PV pipeline that would see installed capacity increase tenfold by 2028.
Coverage includes a revised Zambia power map, interactive power data charts, plus articles focused on the much delayed ZTK power interconnector and C&I news.
African Energy also examines the latest developments in Egypt's programme of giga-scale renewables projects. Two new renewable energy deals, with an aggregate 1.2GW/720MWh capacity, are part of an “accelerated renewable energy initiative”, while early-stage agreements for a cumulative 5.2GW of wind and solar capacity were also signed in November.
Power coverage also includes project updates from South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Oil and gas coverage leads with Côte d’Ivoire. Eni has acquired exploration licences for four bocks that adjoin Block CI-205, where Eni and its partner Petroci Holding announced the Calao discovery in March – CdI’s second-largest ever find.
African Energy also examines news that the Libyan government is about to claim back more than $60bn of until now unknown assets, which investigators say were secretly invested in United States Treasury bonds by the former Qadhafi regime.
The African Energy View focuses on Senegal, where the ruling ‘Duo Diomaye/Sonko’ seems to hold all the cards needed to at least try to implement their ambitious Project Senegal 2050 agenda, after their Pastef party won some 130 of the 165 National Assembly seats in a much-anticipated mid-November legislative election.
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