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UK-based Azuri Technologies and First Bank of Nigeria Ltd announced a partnership on 7 February to expand access to electricity in Nigeria. The agreement will see Azuri’s solar home system packages co-branded and co-marketed by FirstBank. Customers will be able to use First Bank’s Firstmonie agent network and mobile payment platform to pay for their solar systems.

Nigeria
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UK-based off-grid solar company Azuri Technologies has partnered with Chinese television company StarTimes to expand its offering in Kenya. The partnership will provide customers with a solar home system including a 24-inch LED television with free-to-air channels and up to 40 StarTimes channels delivered using a TV aerial or satellite dish. Systems also include four LED lights, a USB charging point and a rechargeable torch and radio. Customers pay a deposit of KSh4,999 ($49.99) and a daily fee of KSh99 over 130 weeks, providing up to six hours of StarTimes TV.

Kenya
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French telecoms provider Orange has announced a programme to provide solar power paid for by its mobile money scheme, which will pilot in three West African countries from November. Orange said the programme aimed to help individual customers or communities generate electricity where no traditional electricity grids are available. The project will be piloted in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Cameroon from November 2016. Orange is providing solar kits or microgrids to rural communities to generate electricity.

Cameroon | Senegal | Côte d'Ivoire
Issue 397 - 26 July 2019

Togo: Scaling Solar to develop 90MW

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The government signed an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on 9 July to develop 90MW of solar power under the Scaling Solar programme. Togo is the sixth country after Zambia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Uzbekistan to join Scaling Solar, the IFC said.The accord follows an initial agreement signed in 2017, under which the IFC funded studies of potential sites and the absorptive capacity of the national electricity grid.

Togo
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Energie du Mali (EDM) has issued a general procurement notice for the construction of the Djenné and Talo mini-hydropower plants on the Bani River, the principal tributary of the Niger River in Mali, as well as for institutional support and project management services. Tenders are expected to be launched in October. EDM has also invited expressions of interest by 30 April from consultants to manage and oversee the construction of the Talo project and its associated distribution grid.

Mali
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Finland’s Nocart has signed contracts worth €12.9m ($14.6m) to supply two off-grid power plants in Malawi and one in Nigeria. In Malawi, the company will provide a 2MW solar-diesel hybrid plant with 1MWh energy storage and a 4MW solar-diesel hybrid with 2MWh storage. The Nigerian plant will be a 1MW hybrid using solar power and sawdust. Nocart uses a software-controlled power management unit that manages generation from multiple sources and technologies to provide a stable power supply.

Malawi | Nigeria
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Helius Power Company invites prequalification applications by 12 March for the implementation of a rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) plant with an installed capacity of around 12MWp and associated network at the Tema Free Zones Enclave. Helius, the power generation subsidiary of Southern Utilities, part of Ghanaian conglomerate LMI Holdings, said it has secured financing for the project, which is to be installed on the 92,000m2 roof space of Mega Warehouse, owned by LMI subsidiary International Warehouse Company.

Ghana
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Fenix International announced this month that it has gained nearly 40,000 customers in the 11 months since it began selling its solar home systems in Zambia. The milestone was reached significantly faster than the company had expected and is one of the first successful large-scale expansions into southern Africa by a pay-as-you-go solar company. Fenix International Zambia managing director John Foye told African Energy that by comparison the company’s main competitor Vitalite had around 15,000 customers, while the other solar suppliers SupaMoto Energy and d.light were much smaller.

Zambia
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German off-grid solar company Mobisol has partnered with internet of things (IoT) specialist Aeris to support remote access to data from its systems. The agreement comes as residential off-grid solar companies continue to move away from simple keycode-activated systems towards more sophisticated monitoring and management operations as the cost of IoT connected products has decreased.The agreement will mean that Mobisol uses Aeris’ AerPort connectivity management platform to receive data from its systems in real time.

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Office National d’Electricité (ONE) is close to finalising a management contract for rural electrification in northern Senegal.

Senegal
Issue 410 - 27 February 2020

Angola: Off-grid solar plans

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Minister of energy and water resources João Baptista Borges has announced that 300MW of new off-grid solar PV capacity will be installed by year-end. He told a business forum during the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on 11 February that systems would be installed in Benguela, in Luena (Moxico Province), in Saurimo (Lunda Sul), Dundo (Lunda Norte) and Bailundo (Huambo Province) with a total investment of $500m.

Angola
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Finland’s Wärtsilä announced on 22 December that it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Tasiast Mauritanie Ltd, a subsidiary of Canadian gold miner Kinross Gold Corporation, to supply a 60MW turnkey power plant for the second phase expansion of the Tasiast mine. The power plant will operate using six Wärtsilä 32TS engines. Commercial operation of the phase two expansion, which will raise output to 30,000 t/d, is expected to begin in Q3 2020. Wärtsilä supplied engines for the 19MW power plant serving the Tasiast mine’s phase 1B project.

Mauritania
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The Agence Guinéenne pour l’Electrification Rurale (Ager) has issued a general procurement notice for technical assistance with the implementation of the national mini-grid development programme.

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Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa has announced it is installing solar plants at 11 of its sites in the country.The plants will have a combined capacity of 10.4MW, expected to produce around 18GWh/yr of electricity, and are scheduled to be completed by February 2019. South Africa’s Mulilo Group will build the facilities under a 25-year power purchase agreement. Investec was lead arranger for the project. Coca- Cola also uses a 1.33MWp solar plant at its bottling facility in Accra, Ghana.

South Africa
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The Foundation Rural Energy Services (FRES) invites bids by 7 March for the supply, installation and commissioning of a 75kWp solar photovoltaic plant in the village of Diaramana in the Ségou region of south-central Mali. The project, to be financed through the European Commission’s ACP-EU Energy Facility 10th European Development Fund, requires the solar plant’s integration with a generator, which is to be supplied separately and connected to a mini-grid in the village.

Mali