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Construction will begin this month at the 25MWp Bangui solar PV plant, which includes a 25MWh battery system, in the Central African Republic

The remaining contracts for the 20MWp Jambur solar PV project are “expected to be signed in the last quarter of this year, after which design and construction will begin”, National Water and Electricity Company (Nawec) senior power engineer Ebrima A Bah told African Energy.

Globeleq has commissioned its 52MW Malindi Solar PV plant in Kilifi county. The plant was exporting about 40MW into the grid as of 14 December. Globeleq owns the plant along with Africa Energy Development Corporation (AEDC) which has a 10% share.

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has announced that  it has finished construction work on the 83MW Olkaria I unit VI and will now begin reliability tests.

Support from the Millennium Challenge Corporation may finally be overcoming decades of incoherent policy choices and other problems caused by corruption and waste.  One instructive case is the 80MW Maria Gléta I dual-fuel thermal plant, commissioned in late 2013.

Rising levels of German financing for Namibia include agreement for KfW to finance construction of Namibia’s first utility-scale storage facility at Omburu

South Africa and North African countries are expected to continue to dominate the wind power sector in the period to 2025, as the rest of the continent shows little sign of being able to close the gap. On a positive note, analysis of the African Energy Live Data project pipeline suggests private finance is taking the place of public ownership across the continent, including now in North Africa, where the state is expected to fall back to a minority ownership position by end-2022.

Kampala-headquartered Aptech Africa has commissioned a 12MWp solar PV plant in Juba for Ezra Construction & Development Group. The commissioning of the plant has quintupled South Sudan’s installed solar capacity, which was previous just 3MWp.

President George Weah has called for the rapid development of delayed schemes at Mount Coffee and other renewable projects, in a move that could ease chronic delays in permitting and financing. The Mount Coffee projects are supported by a new World Bank regional facility.

French independent power producer Qair Group has inked four power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the Central Electricity Board (CEB) to develop four so-called Stor’Sun solar PV and battery storage plants.

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has issued a request for qualification (RfQ) for a 30-year operations and maintenance contract for the 700MW Zungeru hydroelectric power in Nigeria.

Construction of the 69MW Msenge Emoyeni wind farm has started, after the project reached financial close in mid-February, according to the African Clean Energy Developments (Aced) consortium. Rand Merchant Bank was the sole mandated lead arranger.

Voltalia has set a new timeframe for its Nkhotakota solar PV project. Business development manager Marcio Matos told African Energy the project was delayed by Covid-19-related restrictions, and was also affected by the winding-up of Malawi’s single buyer and off-taker Power Market Limited (PML).

Renewable energy developer Solgenics said it has identified potential offtakers for its 300MW solar PV and battery project in Tete Province. The London AIM-listed company which recently changed its name from Ncondezi Energy, is aiming to raise $1.5m from development finance institutions and independent power producers (IPPs) to fund a bankable feasibility study (BFS).

China has agreed to extend a $240m preferential loan to Madagascar to finance construction of the Ranomafana hydroelectric power (HEP) plant on the Ikopa River in Anamalanga, roughly 115 north-west of Antananarivo.