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Dubai-based Amea Power commissioned the 500MW Abdydos plant in mid-December, saying it had also won a contract to expand the plant with a utility-scale battery energy storage system. Abdydos is the largest solar PV plant in Egypt to date. Amea has also signed a PPA for another 500MW Egyptian wind plant.

Egypt
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Zimbabwe and Zambia say work has started to update feasibility studies on the $5bn Batoka Gorge hydroelectric power (HEP) scheme on the Zambezi River. Planned since 1972, initial studies on the scheme were carried out in the 1990s, with financial support from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Zambia | Zimbabwe
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Sound Energy has completed the sale of its Sound Energy Morocco East subsidiary to Casablanca-based Managem. The London AIM-listed company will receive up to $45m for stakes in the Tendrara, Grand Tendrara and Anoual licence areas, but will still retain minority interests in all three areas.

Morocco
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Chinese IPPs and investors are backing 2.5GW of new coal and solar projects that Zimbabwean authorities claim will end load shedding by 2025 – and end the need for power imports by 2026. However, Harare has a history of announcing megaprojects that do not materialise and, even if these schemes do go ahead, questions remain over whether the grid will be able to handle the additional power, writes Tonderayi Mukeredzi.

Zimbabwe
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CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) has raised an initial $140m tranche of senior debt from South Africa’s Standard Bank to fund commercial and industrial (C&I) power projects fuelled by renewable energy (RE) across Africa.

Kenya | Sierra Leone | Madagascar | Zimbabwe | South Africa
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The Kolda solar PV and battery storage IPP, developed by Axian Energy, is soon to be relaunched following a delay caused by a land rights dispute.

Senegal
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Construction has started at data company Teraco’s 120MWp solar PV independent power producer (IPP) project in Free State province. Power from the plant will be wheeled across the Eskom grid to Teraco’s own sites across South Africa.

South Africa
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New York and London-listed Vaalco Energy has signed a contract with an affiliate of Borr Drilling to drill several development wells and appraisal/exploration wells, as part of a planned offshore programme in Gabon.

Gabon
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Norwegian major Equinor has completed its exit from the Nigerian market, with the sale of its Equinor Nigeria Energy Company (Enec) subsidiary to the local Chappal Energies. Chappal will pay up to $1.2bn for a minority stake in the offshore Agbami oil field and operatorship and majority ownership of licence area OML 129.

Nigeria
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Governments struggled to address daunting economic and social pressures in 2024, when many projects moved too slowly and opportunities were missed. A tendency across the continent to vote out incumbents has brought some new faces to the helm but, like their more seasoned fellow leaders, they are confronted by a dizzying array of issues that threaten to complicate even the best-laid schemes.

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Financial close for the 105MWp Ukuqala solar PV plant is Mulilo’s sixth project to reach the milestone in 2024, indicative of the enormous potential in South Africa for IPPs to sign private PPAs for wheeled power.

South Africa
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A commissioning ceremony has taken place for the Nigelec Mohammed VI thermal plant, gifted to Niger by the Moroccan king.

Niger | Morocco
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As demand surges, Kenya is looking to new power developments and imports from the Eastern Africa Power Pool to increase on-grid capacity, with KenGen advancing a new fleet of renewable projects, while a vital new interconnector with Tanzania has been energised and there are signs the IPP moratorium could soon end, writes Marc Howard, recently in Nairobi.

Kenya | Ethiopia | Tanzania
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A further $553m pledge has boosted the outgoing Biden administration’s commitments to the Lobito Corridor and adjacent projects to over $4bn. This points to a significant revitalisation of US ties with African countries – which may be too little, too late, although the Lobito project is unlikely to be halted by a more mercantilist Trump administration.

DR Congo | Angola | Zambia | Tanzania
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A design contract for the Oxbow hydroelectric power plant has jump-started work on the power development of the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).

Lesotho