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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)- and London AIM-listed Mkango Resources is planning three solar PV plants at its Songwe Hill mine. The $311m rare earths project has an estimated 18-year life-of-mine.

The West African Power Pool (Wapp) has inaugurated its Information and Co-ordination Centre (ICC) at its headquarters in Cotonou, Benin.

Dublin-headquartered investor TechMet has taken an option to invest up to $50m in London Stock Exchange-listed Rainbow Rare Earths’ Phalaborwa project in Limpopo province.

Some pessimistic observers are heralding the end of the independent power producer (IPP) era, with the potential demise of actors and project models that have dominated private sector investment in electricity generation since the 1990s. With criticism of IPP costs providing grist to populist mills across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – feeding into narratives of western ‘exploitation’ and anger over rising living costs – politicians have been calling for change, while developers are finding market conditions ever more challenging.

The European Union is providing funds to rehabilitate the government-owned and operated Nalubaale and Kiira hydroelectric power (HEP) plants, which form a two-dam complex on the River Nile at Jinja.

Even before the new Middle East war shattered comfortable assumptions about regional security, the global economic climate remained hostile to many heavily-indebted and financially stressed governments, and to populations who have struggled to live with fallout from the pandemic and Ukraine war, which has included painful levels of inflation and costly currency volatility. African Energy offers a few pointers towards another difficult year ahead, as the IMF issues its annual appraisals of the global outlook and regional economic performance, and the Israel-Palestine conflict returns to centre stage in an increasingly polarised world.

The government has authorised Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) to expand the Gogo hydroelectric power (HEP) plant .

Sudan and Iran have resumed diplomatic relations after a seven-year break, with their embassies to be reopened in the near future. The development followed talks between Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Sudan’s acting foreign affairs minister Ali Al-Sadiq Ali on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit in Baku, Azerbaijan earlier this year

Sturdee Energy’s Bobonong and Shakawe solar PV plants have started commercial operations. The plants are among Botswana’s first renewable energy projects

As President William Samoei Ruto celebrated his first year in State House on 13 September, he has been able to bask in the global leadership opportunity offered by Kenya’s role in crafting an unprecedented African policy approach to the climate crisis ahead of COP28 in Dubai.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has requested invitations for the supply and installation of a solar photovoltaic plant to serve its regional office in Centurion, Gauteng.

The government plans to unveil an implementation plan for the $8.5bn Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) at the COP28 climate summit, which is due to take place in Dubai in November/December.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) has requested expressions of interest for consultants to advise on Senegal’s $2.7bn Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).

Cairo-headquartered African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) announced on 2 October it had extended a $300m loan to Trident OGX Congo.

Canada-headquartered WATT Renewable Corporation has secured $13m in funding from Oslo-based Empower New Energy. The funds will be used to solarise 225 telecoms towers across Nigeria, reducing diesel consumption in the sector