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State-owned Unidade de Gestāo de Projetos Especiais (UGPE) published a tender on 8 March to build four solar PV plants, including a 1.3MW plant on Fogo island, a 1.2MW facility on Santo Antāo island and two 0.4MW plants on the islands of Sāo Nicolau and Maio, along with a storage component.

 A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed for Zimbabwe’s first high-powered green hydrogen power plant, to be developed in the Chipangayi Renewable Park (RETPark), in Manicaland province’s Chipinge district.

Revised in March 2023, this map provides a detailed view of the power sector in Ghana. 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, hydroelectricity, solar PV, wind, wave and biomass.

Climate Finance Partnership (CFP), an investment vehicle run by giant United States fund manager BlackRock, is making its first investment in Africa with a large minority stake in the 310MW Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project in Marsabit County, northern Kenya.

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s cash-strapped government is mired in disputes with power producers, oil companies and other big investors, amid creditors’ concerns over its refinancing plans and a build-up of payment arrears. This is complicating the finalisation of an expected $3bn IMF facility and efforts to relaunch Ghana’s investment drive, write Jon Marks and AE staff.

The Ghanaian government is making another effort to renegotiate state electricity distributor Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)’s supply deals with independent power producers (IPPs), in a bid to replace take-or-pay agreements that have left the state liable for unused electricity while amassing large debts.

Recourse to arbitration by Tullow Oil – Ghana’s largest crude producer, along with Dallas-based Kosmos Energy, through their equity stakes in the Jubilee and Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (Ten) fields – underlines a number of difficult issues facing the London (LSE)- and Ghana Stock Exchange-listed company.

HDF Energy and Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) have agreed to develop Zimbabwe’s first green hydrogen power plant, with the French GH2 developer promising financial close soon.

Northern Ireland- and Aberdeen-based Decom Engineering said its specialist cutting technology had been deployed on an offshore Republic of Congo decommissioning project for TotalEnergies.

After years of silence from operator ExxonMobil, a request for expressions of interest (EoI) appears to confirm industry rumours that the US major wanted to shift the Rovuma LNG (Area 4) project's onshore plant towards a modular approach, which would reduce security risks.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s choice of defence minister has underlined the persistent factional and communal conflicts that undermine the country’s efforts to improve its governance and focus on developmental issues.

Savannah Energy has vowed to pursue all its legal options – including arbitration at the ICA in Paris – after Mahamat Idriss Déby’s ‘transitional’ government nationalised the upstream oil assets the UK independent had acquired from ExxonMobil in December.

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) has acquired a stake in Ubiquity Energy, owner of electricity trading platform Energy Exchange of Southern Africa.

 London-listed Tullow Oil reported a rise in revenues and profits in its full-year results issued in early March and sought to focus attention on its prospects in Ghana and Kenya instead of its high levels of debt and ongoing litigation issues. African Energy takes a closer look at Tullow’s prospects for 2023 and beyond.

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Magnis Energy Technologies has signed a binding funding proposal for up to A$50m ($33.4m) with US investment fund SBC Global.