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Niger's Ministry of Energy and Renewable Energies has confirmed the timeframe for commissioning 3MWp of off-grid solar photovoltaic capacity at ten sites across the country. An initial 3MWp is already operational at five isolated, state-owned thermal plants. While the 6MWp addition is relatively small for many markets, it represents a significant increase for one of Africa’s poorest countries. African Energy takes a closer look at the projects and the impact they could have on energy access in Niger.

China has agreed to extend a $240m preferential loan to Madagascar to finance construction of the Ranomafana hydroelectric power (HEP) plant on the Ikopa River in Anamalanga, roughly 115 north-west of Antananarivo.

Xlinks, which has grandiose plans to generate 3.6GW of renewable energy (RE) in Morocco to dispatch to the United Kingdom, has reportedly entered advanced talks for Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) to provide financial backing so that work can start on what would be the world’s longest undersea cable.

Electricity industry activity is accelerating fast, driven by an old school approach to contracting, and while the revamped Supreme Council for Energy Affairs (Scea) under Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Al-Dabaiba continues to push gas-to-power projects, Libya may finally be joining the renewables party too, with signs of movement on several solar PV projects, writes John Hamilton.

Revised in April 2023, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Libya. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, gas and liquid fuels, natural gas, hybrid, solar PV  and wind. Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 3-9MW, 10-99MW, 100-999MW and 1,000MW and above.Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 110kV to 400kV.  

Revised in April 2023, this map provides a detailed view of power sector infrastructure across Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia. The locations of power generation facilities that are operating, under construction or planned are shown by type – including liquid fuels, hybrid, hydroelectric, geothermal, solar PV, wind and biomass. Generation sites are marked with different sized circles to show sites of 1-9MW (range starts at 0.5MW for Somalia), 10-99MW, 100-499MW and 500MW and above. Existing and future transmission and distribution lines are shown ranging from 132kV to 500kV. Actual and planned cross-border interconnectors are also shown including lines between Ethiopia and Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. An inset presents a small map of Ethiopia shaded by province with text panels summarising major political and security events since 2018. Power generation data was drawn from our African Energy Live Data platform, which contains project level detail on power plants and projects across Africa. The map is presented as a PDF file using eps graphics, meaning that there is no loss of resolution as the file is enlarged.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $50m grant for Eritrea's Dekemhare 30MWp solar PV and 15MW/30MWh battery storage plant.

A group of Japanese and French banks have demonstrated their confidence in the long-term prospects for Egypt’s renewable energy (RE) sector by confirming support for one of its largest wind projects to reach financial close. The commitment is significant as several even larger projects are in the pipeline, while the wider economic outlook for Egypt is deteriorating.

London Stock Exchange-quoted Centamin, owner of the Sukari gold mine near Marsa Alam on Egypt's Red Sea Coast, has announced plans to increase the capacity of its 30MW solar PV plant.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $28.49m grant for an $85.18m project to increase the use of renewable energy (RE) infrastructure to 10% of national demand by 2030.

A group of local investors has injected $12.1m into independent power producer Decentral Energy Managers to help it expand its commercial and industrial (C&I) footprint.

A series of agreements have been signed by Australia Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed firms involved in graphite projects, in a further sign of Tanzania’s potential to become a leading exporter.

Lusaka-based Africa GreenCo has been awarded a US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) grant for a feasibility study to expand its battery energy storage capacity throughout Zambia to 400MWh.

London AIM-listed Savannah Energy said it planned to announce a series of new utility-scale renewable power projects over the course of Q2 and Q3 2023 and was moving ahead with its planned acquisition of assets in South Sudan, as it deals with the shock nationalisation of its upstream assets and export pipeline in Chad in March.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has partnered with British major BP in a bid to buy 50% of Israel’s NewMed Energy, the largest shareholder in the Leviathan gas field offshore Israel. The deal was presented as a first step in a potentially broader eastern Mediterranean play.