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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.

Australian Securities Exchange-listed Invictus Energy has established the existence of light oil, gas condensate and helium at its Cabora Bassa oil and gas exploration project in Muzarabani, in northern Zimbabwe.

Three distribution companies – Kano, Kaduna and Aba Power Limited Electric – were briefly disconnected from the grid by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in April after a long history of unpaid invoices. Government intervention led to them being reconnected, but only for a 60-day grace period. TCN has warned that other discos could be disconnected once the grace period expires.

Cape Town-based independent power producer Red Rocket Energy is further building up its project portfolio with plans to build two 150MW solar PV and battery energy storage facilities close to Eskom’s Tutuka coal-fired power station. African Energy spoke to Red Rocket’s head of development Sharief Harris.

CrossBoundary Energy has confirmed to African Energy the expected commissioning date for its 11.25MWp solar PV and 8.5MW/MWh battery energy storage facility to supply Syrah Resources’ Twigg/Balama graphite project in Mozambique.

Starsight Premier Energy Group (Speg) has commissioned a 3MWp rooftop solar PV plant for timber firm Timsales Ltd in Elburgon, Nakuru County, Kenya.

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Peak Rare Earths (PRE) has been granted a special mining licence (SML) by Tanzania's government for its Ngualla rare earth project. The $321m project involves a mine, mill and concentrator plant in southern Tanzania, 150km from Mbeya.

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.

Milele Energy has completed the purchase of a 25.25% stake in the 310MW Lake Turkana Wind Project (LTWP) in Marsabit County, in a major step forward for the Nairobi-headquartered company.

A first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) had arrived at Italy’s new regasification terminal in Piombino, and had begun offloading at the Tuscan facility, Eni said on 5 May. The LNG was supplied from the Damietta liquefaction plant in Egypt, which Eni now operates in a joint venture with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas).

African Energy has analysed the latest on-grid power generation data for North Africa.

The prospects for giga-scale renewable power projects in North Africa have never been better, leveraging off export-led green hydrogen projects and the advantages of adding cheap non-emitting capacity to already well-developed grids. But the latest figures from African Energy Live Data show that, over the next five years, North Africa will instead pour ever more natural gas into a growing fleet of open cycle plants, while relatively few wind and solar projects have firm completion dates.

Published April 2023, this graphic consists of three trend charts illustrating North Africa's installed and pipeline power generation capacity and a map showing the location of generation projects where partial or full commercial operations are scheduled to begin over the 2023-2027 period.

High inflation and a global energy crisis are forcing a rethink on how the world might make the transition from hydrocarbons to renewable energy. Until recently, rich-world policy-makers and think tanks had been pushing to electrify global energy demand as quickly as possible and in many parts of the world a de facto moratorium on new hydrocarbon projects had taken hold. But reports of the demise of gas have been greatly exaggerated.