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Oslo-headquartered development finance institution Norfund has committed another $40m to the pan-African commercial and industrial power specialist CrossBoundary Energy.

Kenya | Sierra Leone | Madagascar | Zimbabwe | South Africa
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Kenya-based PowerGen has secured funds to develop a 120MW portfolio of commercial and industrial (C&I) and off/metro-grid renewable power projects, with an initial focus on projects in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

DR Congo | Sierra Leone | Nigeria
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CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) has raised an initial $140m tranche of senior debt from South Africa’s Standard Bank to fund commercial and industrial (C&I) power projects fuelled by renewable energy (RE) across Africa.

Kenya | Sierra Leone | Madagascar | Zimbabwe | South Africa
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Belgium’s International Montage Maintenance (IMM) has completed construction of  a 22MW thermal power plant at Gerald Group’s Marampa iron ore mine in Sierra Leone. Owned and operated by the London-headquartered miner, the commercial and industrial (C&I) Marapma facility has now been commissioned.

Sierra Leone
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Prospects for the regional electricity supply industry and West African power trading took a huge leap forward when two major networks interconnected at Linsan in Guinea. Much work remains to be done after the 2 April link-up, but the OMVG-CLSG interconnection points to a more positive direction of travel for a West African Power Pool that is starting to excite market interest.

Gambia | Sierra Leone | Guinea | Liberia | Guinea-Bissau | Mali | Côte d'Ivoire | Senegal
Issue 501 - 01 March 2024

Milele Energy expands Kenya team

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Milele Energy – part-owner of the Lake Turkana wind farm – has been hiring as the Nairobi-headquartered IPP developer it prepares to expand its African project portfolio.

Kenya | Sierra Leone
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C&I specialist CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) is to finance and build a hybrid solar, battery energy storage and thermal plant for FG Gold’s Baomahun project in Sierra Leone. Situated in the Valunia and Kunike Barina chiefdoms of the Bo and Tonkolili districts, Baomahun will be the country’s first large-scale gold mine.

Sierra Leone
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Construction is expected to start at the planned Sherbro Island power plant this year, with the involvement of Hollywood actor Idris Elba adding a sprinkling of stardust to Sierra Leone’s first wind development.

Sierra Leone
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Danish investor and developer Frontier Energy has announced a co-investment with three European development finance agencies for the 50MWp, under-construction, multi-site Planet Solar independent power producer (IPP) plant. Planet Solar will be Sierra Leone’s first large grid-connected IPP, the funders said.

Sierra Leone
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Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has requested expressions of interest (EoI) for a project supervising engineer consultancy for the Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Rural Electrification Project (CLSG-RE).

Sierra Leone | Guinea | Liberia | Côte d'Ivoire
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Lagos-headquartered multilateral the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has set out its stall as a financier and partner for the continent’s energy transition, with a strategy to support renewable energy and critical minerals projects around the continent, as well as the development of battery manufacturing supply chains. The AFC also plans to continue supporting short- to medium-term energy needs by backing upstream and midstream gas projects and gas-to-power (GTP) developments. Marc Howard spoke to AFC executive director and chief investment officer Sameh Shenouda during the recent Africa Energy Forum in Nairobi.

DR Congo | Sierra Leone | Nigeria | Djibouti | Guinea | Zambia | Gabon | South Africa | Côte d'Ivoire
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has launched a new $311m fund for renewables in Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo.

Sierra Leone | Chad | Liberia | Togo
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The first phase of commercial operations has begun at the Baoma solar PV project with an initial 5MW. The project will have a total operational capacity of 25MW when complete.

Sierra Leone
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved $1m in funding through the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (Sefa) to conduct feasibility studies for hybrid biomass power plants in Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Ghana | Sierra Leone
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Five more memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed in Rabat on 5 December, bringing more partners into the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project.

Gambia | Ghana | Sierra Leone | Nigeria | Guinea | Guinea-Bissau | Morocco