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Royal Dutch Shell and BP have offered the South African government a stake in the jointly owned Sapref refinery in Durban, according to reports from Johannesburg.

According to the draft bill on the incorporation of the South Sudan Electricity Corporation (SSEC), seen by African Energy, the state company will be responsible for the expansion, management and operation of the electricity grid, the development of generation and transmission capacity and the sale in bulk of “quality, reliable and cost-effective electricity” to distributors in South Sudan.

ABB has won an order worth $43m from Eskom to supply medium-voltage switchgear as well as protection and supervisory control and data acquisition (Scada) equipment for a thermal power plant being built in Mpumalanga

The government’s decision to abandon controversial plans to create regional electricity distributors shows the state centralising key business decisions, rather than letting the market shape the direction of the supply industry.

The role of export credit agencies (ECAs) have been flagged up by Rand Merchant Bank infrastructure finance transactor Hugh Hawarden

As this is African Energy’s 200th issue, the editorial team is minded to reflect on past stories and their links to current news

Energy financiers had their moments in 2010, but the power sector remains under-financed, writes Kevin Godier

Sasol New Energy Holdings has given Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group a contract to carry out a feasibility study for a gas-fired power generation plant at Sasolburg

Evolution One Fund, a ZAR700m ($98.53m) clean technology private equity fund, has committed to invest up to ZAR146m in Red Cap’s 100MW Kouga wind farm, in the Kouga municipality of Eastern Cape province, 70km south-west of Port Elizabeth

Private equity fund Evolution One has invested R51.8m ($7.6m) in major South African waste management company EnviroServ Waste Management (EnviroServ).

The Department of Energy has selected the US’ Fluor Corporation to perform a study for a potential 5GW solar park development in the Northern Cape

BURKINA FASO: Boad credits for power expansion; EGYPT: Alstom to supply management system; EGYPT: CSP only for Kom Ombo project; EGYPT: Kureimat solar-thermal near to commissioning; GHANA/COTE D’IVOIRE: Interconnection studies awarded; KENYA: Drought hits profits at KenGen; MOROCCO: Bid opening beckons for Safi IPP; MOROCCO: Coal contract for Jerrada; SOUTH AFRICA: Alstom contract for Kusile; TUNISIA: EIB funds for transmission

BURKINA FASO: Boad funding for diesel plant; CAMEROON: Nigeria’s MRS in tidal power study; CAPE VERDE: Martifer Solar opens new plant; EGYPT: General Cable buys BICC; SENEGAL: Moroccan contractor seeks PV units; SOUTH AFRICA: Larsen & Toubro sets up JV; SOUTH AFRICA: USTDA funds smart meters; TUNISIA: Decision still awaited on Bizerte IPP; DESERTEC: Algiers remains non-committal; ONE: Transformers wanted; TRANSGREEN: Moroccans sign up to interconnection

Eskom Holdings has concluded German and French export credit agency (ECA)-covered financings worth over E170m ($228m) to fund elements of its 4,800MW Medupi power station and 1,352MW Ingula pump storage schemes.

MOROCCO: Record consumption; NIGER: Kandadji deal; SOUTH AFRICA: Eskom signs first carbon credits deal; CONCENTRIX SOLAR: CPV pilot at South African game reserve