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Engie Africa launched a pilot project earlier this month to provide purified water, power and Wi-Fi to off-grid communities in Kigali, Rwanda.
Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company Ltd (Nawec) on 4 November issued a request for qualification from independent power producers to develop, finance, build, operate and maintain a 30MW dual fuel power plant in Kotu, Gambia.
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.
Soundings are under way with potential strategic investors to take a major equity stake in the planned 1.5GW Mphanda Nkuwa (MNK) hydroelectric power (HEP) project, with a request for proposals from potential build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) partners to be issued possibly as soon as December, but more likely in early 2022
