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Dubai-based Amea Power has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 85MW solar PV power plant it is developing at an unnamed site in North West Province. The agreement was signed with private energy trader GreenCo Power Services, a subsidiary of Lusaka-based Africa GreenCo Group.

Published April 2023, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Sudan, alongside a text panel detailing key events in the April 2023 political crisis.

Cape Town has announced plans to procure 560MW of renewable energy, as the Democratic Party-run city continues with its efforts to cut its dependence on an unreliable national grid and provide cover from the impact of load-shedding by national utility Eskom.  City authorities have also announced plans to build a 60MW solar PV and battery plant outside Somerset West, with support from the C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF).

Sudan’s traditional partners have sought to intervene in the conflict between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)’s General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (widely known as Hemedti), in an attempt to bring peace and, more pragmatically, to evacuate their nationals.

The issue leads with a focus on Sudan, where control over energy facilities has become a key strategic factor in the country’s latest descent into civil war, with oil refining and electricity generation infrastructure divided between opposing forces. African Energy also focuses on Tanzania, where the government is planning for an anticipated surge in demand for electricity in the coming years by adding more gas-fired capacity to the grid and pushing ahead with renewable energy projects. The issue also takes a closer look at the formidable economic challenges awaiting Nigeria's new President Bola Tinubu, including cutting subsidies and overhauling the exchange rate. Power coverage leads with a look at North Africa, with an analysis of the latest figures from African Energy Live Data showing that over the next five years the region will pour ever more natural gas into a growing fleet of open cycle plants. Upstream coverage leads with an examination of Ghana's much-delayed Greater Pecan offshore oil project, which appears to have been given a new lease of life, after Lagos-headquartered Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) took a 50% stake in the field, via the acquisition of Aker Energy. African Energy also takes a closer look at Savannah Energy’s dispute with the Chadian government, with diplomatic ties between Chad and Cameroon under stress after the London AIM-listed oil company’s new deal to sell part of its interest in the Chad-Cameroon export pipeline. The African Energy View focuses on the role of gas in Africa's energy transition.

Elcora Advanced Materials is preparing to make its first manganese shipments from Morocco, while also developing a vanadium mine with plans to supply the European battery market.

Sudan’s energy sector has a history of mismanagement and bad value deals going back many years. Its record of failure started under Omar Hassan Al-Bashir (head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019) and worsened under the ineffective successor civilian administration.

State grid operator Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) has called for consultancy services for the African Development Bank (AfDB)-supported Eastern Ethiopia Electricity Grid Reinforcement Project.

Namibia's Otjiwarongo municipality has called for expressions of interest (EoIs) for transaction advisory services for a wastewater treatment plant and waste-to-energy power plant under a public/private partnership (PPP) structure.

Much of Sudan’s infrastructure was in a parlous state before murderous and indiscriminate faction fighting broke out in mid-April, but the situation is set to get worse still with control of power plants and oil facilities now split between forces under rival generals Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan and Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti). The crisis shows how densely populated modern cities can be reduced to ruin and complex geopolitical shifts are impacting on stability in fragile polities, write Aziz Alnour and John Hamilton.

Australian-listed Leo Lithium and joint venture partner China’s Ganfeng Lithium have acquired two further licence areas adjacent to their Goulamina project’s existing concession. The project's initial definitive feasibility study envisaged a 15MW on-site diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant under a build-own-operate structure. In April, Leo said a tender for power supply had been released by the JV.

Exports of crude oil from Sudan and South Sudan appear to be holding up, despite the fighting between rival Sudanese generals Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and General Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti).

Published April 2023, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Niger. The locations of on-grid and off-grid power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by fuel type – including liquid fuels, coal, hybrid, hydroelectricity, solar PV and wind.  

Savannah Energy has committed to developing the 75MW Bini a Warak hydroelectric scheme – previously expected to be built by Chinese finance and companies – as an independent power project (IPP). The project should burnish London AIM-listed Savannah’s credentials as a broad-based energy company, during a period when it is consolidating its Cameroonian links while contesting neighbouring Chad’s nationalisation of its upstream assets.