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The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has given its approval for the development of the 1,650MW Makurdi hydroelectric power (HEP) plant.

Global Alliance for People and Planet and the Norwegian government have pledged more funding to support the development of solar power in Sahel countries.

Germany’s Juwi is the final stages of commissioning the 36MWp solar PV plant at Centamin’s Sukari gold mine, which will work alongside an existing diesel plant.

Germany’s offer of support for a first hydrogen (GH2) plant in Morocco makes the North African country a potential early mover in the race to build a hydrogen economy on the continent.

Commercial and industrial power developer CrossBoundary Energy said on 8 November it was working with Bank of America to explore opportunities with development finance institutions to structure a blended finance loan facility.

Southern Africa leaders have made a joint appeal at COP27 for nearly $20bn from investors to complete electricity transmission interconnectors and fund new renewable energy projects, in part to increase energy capacity in the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).

Growing alarm over the scale of the climate emergency and the impossibility of limiting the global temperature increase to just 1.5ºC by 2100 has put Africa’s climate finance conundrum into the spotlight during COP27 in Egypt.  Divisions over the future role of gas in energy transition have split the continent – which will not get all the new money it wants to help it adapt to the consequences of climate change, writes John Hamilton in Sharm El Sheikh.

Loading of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from Eni’s 3.4m t/yr Coral Sul floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plant is due to take place on 14 November, an industry source told African Energy.

Construction of the 132kV Kandadji-Niamey transmission line has official started. Once completed, the line will evacuate 130MW from the Kandadji hydroelectric power (HEP) plant.

Winch Energy has completed and commissioned three solar PV and storage mini-grids in Alikalia, Kondebaya and Sambia-Bendugu villages. The mini-grids were installed as part of the second phase of Winch’s 24-site mini-grid project in Sierra Leone

Too often ignored except in times of extreme crisis, Lesotho is looking to emerge from years of political instability and economic malaise under previous coalition governments, as the Basotho population counts on newly-elected tycoon Prime Minister Sam Matekane to usher in transformative change.

London AIM-listed Savannah Energy has told African Energy that it hopes to start production from its Amdigh-1 well in the Agadem Rift Basin (ARB) in 2023.

The Korea Institute for the Advancement of Technology (KIAT) is to invest $12.4m in four solar PV mini-grid projects in Nigeria, under a deal signed with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

United States climate envoy John Kerry has held out the prospect of additional help being offered at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to counties in Africa and elsewhere that are being badly affected by climate change issues.

Canada’s Em-one Energy Solutions has been awarded a contract to construct the 3.1MW University of Abuja solar PV, diesel and battery plant.