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Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Guinea: Drought puts pressure on thermal plants

An unusually short rainy season has sharply reduced power production from the Kaléta dam, obliging the authorities to increase their use of thermal energy. Electricité de Guinée (EDG), the state power company managed by France’s Veolia, obtains its grid power from a mix of...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Guinea

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Guinea-Bissau: Portuguese consortium to restructure EAGB

EDP Internacional, Aguas de Portugal Internacional and Portuguese consultancy Leadership Business Consulting have won an international tender to provide technical assistance in the modernisation and restructuring of Electricidade e Aguas da Guiné-Bissau (EAGB).The agreement for...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Guinea-Bissau

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Mali: First IPP to play central role in grid

Mali’s first fully fledged independent power project has begun operating at Kayes, in Hawa-Dembaya district in the west of the country. The 90MW Albatros Energy Mali heavy fuel oil (HFO) plant will play an important role in grid stability and the integration of renewables into...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Mali

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Gambia: Transmission infrastructure in Greater Banjul area

The National Water and Electricity Company has invited bids by 24 December for the construction of transmission infrastructure between the city of Brikama and the coastal resort of Kotu in the Greater Banjul area.

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Gambia

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

South Africa: R3bn loan for Redstone CSP

The African Development Bank (AfDB) board on 30 November approved a R3bn ($216m) senior loan for the 100MW Redstone plant at the Humansrus solar park in the Northern Cape, which is being developed by Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power. The plant will use a molten salt central tower with...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

South Africa

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

DRC/Zambia: Cross-border power supply for Eurasian’s Frontier mine

Luxembourg-based Eurasian Resources Group has concluded power supply arrangements for its Frontier copper mine on the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Eurasian announced on 26 November that a contract had been signed with Société Nationale d’...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Zambia

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Zambia: Zesco restructuring

Zesco has set up a team headed by cabinet secretary Roland Msiska to implement proposed reforms to the utility, though concrete action is unlikely until after the 2021 presidential and general elections. The cabinet commissioned a diagnostic study in 2017 which made a list of...

Issue 382 - 06 December 2018

Zambia

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