The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed a contract with France’s Delmas for the construction of a 15MW thermal power plant in Bor, a suburb of Bissau. The plant will be built with financing of nearly CFA16bn ($29m) from the West African Development Bank (Boad). The plant...

Developer TuNur, which has not abandoned efforts to generate solar energy for export to Europe, in late July applied to the Ministry of Energy and Mines for authorisation to build an eventual 4.5GW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant near Rjim Maatoug in the south-western...

Liberia’s Ministry of Finance and Development Planning announced on 31 July that a new transmission and distribution project worth €35.5m ($39m) has begun implementation following a meeting in Monrovia. The Monrovia Consolidation of Electricity Transmission and Distribution...

The UK’s BBOXX has reached agreement with the government to supply 300,000 solar home systems in Togo over the next five years. The government’s Vision 2030 programme aims to provide universal access to electricity. The population stands at 7m people, of which 700,000...

The government of Sierra Leone on 4 August signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Joule Africa for the long-mooted Bumbuna II scheme. Under the terms of the agreement, Joule Africa and its local partner Energy Services Company (Esco) will jointly own the new...