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Renewables developer Total Eren and Luanda-based Greentech (Angola Environment Technology) have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Energy and Water for the development of a 35MWp solar PV plant at Lubango, Huila province.

The Ministry of Petroleum has launched a new upstream licensing round including 24 on- and offshore blocks. As part of an innovation which has been under development for the past four years, data on the blocks including an archive of sub-surface information will be made available via the Egypt Upstream Gateway (EUG), a digital platform developed in partnership with oil services company Schlumberger.

Dubai- and Riyadh-based Nuwa Capital aims to close a $100m fund by year-end as it looks to invest in start-ups across the Middle East and Africa.

National oil company Petrozim Line has awarded a ten-month contract to Penspen for work on the 208km Feruka-Harare pipeline, which the UK-based firm originally designed. Penspen will deliver engineering and procurement support services for the multi-product pipeline project.

São Tomé and Príncipe has set up formal diplomatic relations with Qatar on 4 May, with a joint communiqué signed in New York by the chargé d'affaires of São Tomé and Príncipe’s mission to the United Nations.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) appears to have decided to retain its 15% stake in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) and not to exercise an option to reduce its holding to 5% in the project, which is expected to come to the international market for debt finance later this year

The Malilangwe Trust and Sustainable Agriculture Technology have set a 30 June deadline for expressions of interest (EoI) in the design, EPC, testing and implementation of a 4.5MWp solar plant in Masvingo Province.

RP Global and OOLU on 24 June announced the launch of a new commercial and industrial (C&I) joint venture solar company called Westa.Solar. The company has already completed its first project, a 500kW solar PV hybrid system for Petrichor Industries in Kano State, Nigeria.

The need to preserve land was one of the reasons put forward by Bui Power Authority deputy chief executive Anthony Osafo-Kissi for the development of the continent’s first floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) and co-located solar plant. A 1MW pilot project on the Bui reservoir was commissioned in Q1 2021, along with the first 50MWp tranche of an eventual 250MWp ground-mounted scheme beside the dam.

The 11MWp solar PV plant at the Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Butere, Kakamega county, Kenya will be commissioned this September, MMTC told African Energy Live Data.

The 40MWac Nkhotakota solar PV plant in Malawi is on track to reach financial close later this year or early next year, in time to start operating in Q4 2022.

Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) is halting support for two solar PV projects after grid impact assessments found that existing infrastructure was insufficient to evacuate power from them.

Dutch development bank FMO has closed a $2.1m follow-on investment in off-grid solar company D.light.

Southern African governments have been slow to recognise the potential of regional power pools to draw investment into their countries. Most have seen the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) through a resource nationalist lens...

TotalEnergies’ latest Strategy and Outlook paper, Building a sustainable multi-energy company, offers a heavily-illustrated, if light-on-detail, glimpse of how the corporate giants formally known as ‘oil majors’ may change in the coming decade. The document, presented at a 28 September shareholders meeting, is strong on TotalEnergies’ plan for “reinvention”, from being a bad old oil major to one with a cleverly constructed – and often very valuable – sustainable energy strategy.