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UK-based climate fund manager Camco Clean Energy has partnered with Energy Peace Partners (EPP) to manage the Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-Rec) Aggregation Fund.

Nairobi-based Serengeti Energy has said it sees opportunities to develop more hydroelectric power (HEP) plants in Uganda, despite a risk of oversupply in the market in the near term.

Energy and mineral development minister Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu has said South Africa’s Eskom Uganda will no longer operate and maintain the 200MW Kiira and 180MW Nalubaale hydroelectric power (HEP) plants, when their 20-year concessions are concluded next year.

Nairobi-based Camco Clean Energy’s new specialised finance company Spark Energy Services is looking to fund solar PV and wind plants, plus energy efficiency initiatives for commercial and industrial (C&I) developers. Spark’s ‘impact-led’ approach intends to enable local developers in sub-Saharan markets to build scale and their balance sheets, in turn creating sustainable C&I businesses

The final investment decision on TotalEnergies’ Lake Albert development – combining the  Tilenga-Kingfisher upstream oil project in Uganda and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) taking oil for export from Tanzania comes as a major boost for East Africa’s energy ambitions and ends a long wait for the host governments eager to capture substantial new revenue inflows

A newly-commissioned mini-grid on Lake Victoria is acting as a testbed for the French energy giant’s approach to mini-grids, with a focus on promoting industrial development to boost electricity use, writes Dan Marks

The World Bank Group is seeking consultants to plan, design and supervise the construction of electricity connection projects as part of the grid expansion and connectivity component of the Electricity Access Scale-up Project (EASP) in Uganda. 

Prizes and league tables should often be treated with great caution (as underlined by Nobel laureate Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s war in Tigray), but credit should be given when it is due and, in that context, Uganda’s fourth consecutive first place in the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Electricity Regulatory Index should be acknowledged as a triumph for the rule of law and sound management.

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) will offer $460m in contracts on the Kingfisher oil field, following a final investment decision announced on 3 November.

Energy and mineral development minister Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu told a press conference on 3 November that China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) had made a final investment decision on the Kingfisher field and was now ready to proceed.

Controversy continues to dog financing from China, the world’s largest bilateral lender by a distance. Its debt provision has transformed the African funding landscape over the past two decades: according to African Energy Live Data, $38bn of Chinese investment was committed to power projects across the continent between 2014 and 2019 alone.

East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) has begun to line up suppliers and started the land acquisition process in Tanzania, ahead of construction of the 1,443km pipeline between Kabaale in Uganda and Tanga port in Tanzania.

Work on the construction of a 294km 132kV transmission line connecting Kole, Gulu, Nebbi and Arua, and associated 132/33kV substations at each location, is 40% complete.

Developers of small hydropower (SHP) projects in East Africa are facing greater challenges in raising finance for their schemes, as a result of weak national grids and a shift away from take-or-pay arrangements by offtakers, according to one industry figure.