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NIGERIA/SAO TOME: JDZ Block 2 extension; RWANDA: Government expects to sign PSA with Vanoil; SIERRA LEONE: Block SL-4 may have new owner

Sporadic power cuts still occur in Kigali but this situation might change radically as projects to tap Rwanda’s potential come on stream between now and 2017, writes François Misser, recently in Kigali

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga) has issued an investment guarantee supporting ContourGlobal’s KivuWatt project to generate power from Lake Kivu’s methane. The $142m project involves an integrated methane gas extraction and production facility and associated 25MW power plant at Kibuye, on the shore of Lake Kivu.

The African Development Bank board has approved a $25m senior private sector loan for ContourGlobal’s KivuWatt gas to power project, the first large scale private sector investment in power generation in Rwanda

Officials from Burundi, DRC and Rwanda are expected to meet potential investors in Kigali in March to put together an estimated $500m financing package for the planned Ruzizi III HEP scheme, which would supply electricity to all three partner states.

The $50m-100m private sector African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has launched its Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies (React) programme, offering grants and interest-free loans of around $250,000-1.5m for local and international investments in East African Community (EAC) countries.

Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et du Gaz announced on 25 November that it had been awarded a TD100m ($69m) contract by Rwanda Electricity Corporation to connect 50,000 households in six provinces in the north-east to the national grid

The politically complex redevelopment of the Ruzizi River cascade’s power schemes seems finally to be taking shape, writes David Slater

Several projects are lining up technology partners and financiers in a move to generate electricity and stabilise Lake Kivu’s volatile methane gas.

DJIBOUTI: World Bank moots extra funding; EGYPT: Options to add hydro to Zefta dam; MALI: SNC Lavalin to study Gourbassi; MOZAMBIQUE: Backbone contract award; RWANDA: Sustainable energy tender; SUDAN: Letter of award for Upper Atbara hydro

Imboulou dam inaugurated; SAPP tender; Nyabarongo financing signed; Landfill gas project

ALGERIA: Sonatrach announces five new finds; ANGOLA: CLOV survey contract; DRC/RWANDA: Partners sought for Lake Kivu methane; EGYPT: Technip contract for WDDM; EGYPT: Premier completes NW Gemsa sale; EGYPT: Premier completes NW Gemsa sale; EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Contract extension for Songa Saturn; GHANA: Well confirms southerly extent of Jubilee field ; KENYA: Block L8 3D seismic completed; NIGERIA: Total find on OPL 223

BURKINA FASO: Electrification work; EGYPT: Wind farm substation order; KENYA: Donor-funded transmission line contracts; RWANDA: Reco transmission equipment tender; SUDAN: DFIs support photovoltaic systems purchase; SUDAN: Grid for White Nile State; SUDAN: NEC restructuring; TANZANIA: Tanesco transmission consultancy order

The World Bank has approved $70m of finance for the Electricity Access Scale-up and Sector-Wide Approach Development Project, which aims to improve access to power for households and public bodies. The project, which is co-financed with $10m from the Opec Fund for International Development, has three components:

Rwanda has come out as the world’s top regulatory reformer in the International Finance Corporation and World Bank report Doing Business 2010: Reforming Through Difficult Times.