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General Electric (GE) will supply power generation equipment to the 300MW West African Energy combined-cycle plant in Cap des Biches, Dakar, the company announced on 28 January.

InfraCo Africa, part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group, and Canada’s JCM Power announced on 2 March that construction would begin soon on the 20MWac Golomoti solar PV project in Malawi.

Russia’s Nordgold Group has confirmed that the 33MW HFO plant it is building to power its Lefa mine in the Kankan region of Guinea will be commissioned by the end of 2021

The 15MW Nyamagasani I and 5MW Nyamagasani II run-of-river hydropower projects are both due to be commissioned in 2021. The plants received financial commitments of $13m in the third round of the Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs (GET FiT) programme in November 2014.

A net 7,706MW was added to the African power grid in 2020, down from 9.6GW in 2019 and a high of 19GW in 2018, according to an annual update from African Energy Live Data. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the impact was even more severe, when South Africa is excluded from the data. Only 1,584MW was added in the SSA region over the course of the year, the lowest amount of new capacity since 2008.

The 10MWp Adams solar PV plant is expected online in September, construction began in January following the approval of an amended generation licence from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa in December.

Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Mines, Oil and Energy and Côte d’Ivoire Energies (CI Energies) on 23 June launched a request for prequalification (RfQ) for two grid-connected solar PV plants with combined capacity of at least 60MWp

Miner Goviex Uranium chief executive Daniel Major told African Energy that work on the 20MW Madaouela Mine solar PV and diesel hybrid plant near Arlit, in the Agadez region, had been postponed.

Scatec signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) on 25 November for the country’s first privately-financed, utility-scale solar PV power plant, the Neo I 20MWp project. The ceremony in Maseru was attended by Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro.

Two BUA Group subsidiaries have signed agreements for large commercial and industrial (C&I) plants: a 70MW dual fuel plant at BUA Cement’s Obu Line 3 project in the southern Edo state, and a 35MW bagasse plant at BUA Industries’ Lafiagi bagasse project in the western Kwara state.

Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) issued a tender for the development, financing, construction, operations and maintenance of six solar PV plants on 6 January, but then withdrew it on 18 January without explanation.

National utility Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) has launched a tender for a 50MW wind independent power producer (IPP) to be built near Lüderitz, a wind hotspot.

Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) is expecting to commission a number of its own wind and solar projects during the next 12 months as part of a wider project to take installed renewable generation capacity up to 10GW during 2023.

The 211MW Memve’ele hydroelectric power (HEP) project is expected to operate at full capacity by end-October.

A consortium of two US firms, Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions and Sun Africa, have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian government to develop, design and commission 961MW of solar PV projects along with 455MWh of battery storage.