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The Opec Fund for International Development (Ofid) is providing $25m for the Niger Solar Plant Development and Electricity Access Improvement Project (Ranaa), which is supporting 40MW of solar-hybrid capacity across three developments.

Belgian construction firm BESIX said on 9 March that the first two cofferdams in the spillway openings of the 420MW Nachtigal hydroelectric power (HEP) plant have been lowered.

A 600kW gas-fired power plant developed by Genesis Energy has started operating at the Malian Cashew Corporation’s factory in Diatoula, south of the capital Bamako.

The 100MW Sirakoro heavy fuel oil (HFO) plant has been connected to Energie du Mali (EdM)’s grid, according to Lebanese engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor Matelec.

Dutch developer Gigawatt Global Coöperatief is to double the 7.5MW Mubuga solar PV plant’s capacity in a rare investment success for Burundi.

The Nigerien Ministry of Energy and Renewable Energies (known by its French acronym Meer) said on 10 May it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with London AIM-listed Savannah Energy for two solar PV plants.

Developer SSI Energy has appointed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the 10MW Kahama solar PV plant. Work includes a 3km transmission line to Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco)’s Buzwagi substation.

Mining and metals group Sibanye-Stillwater has signed its first power purchase agreement (PPA) and reached financial close for the 89MW Castle wind farm, near De Aar in Northern Cape province. The wind farm will supply Sibanye-Stillwater’s mining operations via a wheeling agreement with state utility Eskom.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Exim) has approved a $900m loan to build two solar PV plants for the Ministry of Energy and Water (Minea).

Mauritius-headquartered Hydroneo East Africa has requested expressions of interest (EoI) for the design and construction of the 10MW Mpanda hydroelectric power (HEP) project on the Ruzibazi river in Bubanza. Once complete, the plant will be Burundi’s first HEP independent power producer (IPP).

CrossBoundary Energy’s 8MWp solar PV installation is now dispatching power to Rio Tinto’s QIT Madagascar Minerals ilmenite facility in Taolagnaro, the Nairobi-headquartered developer told African Energy, while the project’s 8.2MWh battery energy storage system is also in the final stages of commissioning.

The first phase of the 50MW Solenova Caraculo solar PV project in Angola's Namibe province has been inaugurated.

More than 4GW of hybrid power projects using battery storage are expected to come online by 2025 according to the African Energy Live Data platform. More than half of this will come from projects in South Africa’s Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP).

Mainstream Renewable Power (MRP) has provided more details of its plans to develop 610MW of solar power capacity close to Eskom’s coal-fired power plants at Majuba and Tutuka. The amount of solar power to be developed close to the Eskom plants is now set to reach more than 2.4GW, after French green hydrogen (GH2) developer HDF Energy said it had plans for 1,500MW of capacity.

Actis has been selected as preferred bidder for what will be Egypt’s first power sector privatisation. The deal has yet to be formally announced but an industry source confirmed to African Energy that Actis was the successful bidder for a trio of wind plants built in the Gulf of Suez, which are being sold as a single entity.