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Off-grid developer Winch Energy has confirmed its funding for an ambitious solar mini-grid project, comprising 49 sites in Uganda and Sierra Leone. As Winch chief executive Nicholas Wrigley told African Energy in January, the funding, which comprises $100m of debt and equity, is for a new platform, Winch Energy IPP Holdings (WIPP).

Sierra Leone | Uganda
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Power Africa is seeking projects offering off-grid energy access to improve the capabilities of healthcare facilities providing maternal and child health services in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda. Grant funding will support the scale-up of existing business models or technologies for the electrification of healthcare facilities.

Kenya | Malawi | Nigeria | Uganda | Senegal
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Off-grid solar company Solarise Africa announced on 9 February it had signed a partnership agreement with turnkey energy firm Centennial Generating Company. The deal sees Solarise Africa acquire stakes in seven projects in Rwanda, two in Zambia and one in Uganda, spread across the education, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and agriculture sectors.

Uganda | Rwanda | Zambia
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Off-grid solar company Solarise Africa announced on 9 February that it had signed a partnership agreement with turnkey energy firm Centennial Generating Company.

Uganda | Rwanda | Zambia
Issue 430 - 14 January 2021

Uganda: Four shortlisted for bid round

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Four companies or joint ventures have been shortlisted for oil blocks in western Uganda offered in the country’s second licensing round. The four are Uganda National Oil Company, Total E&P, Australian miner DGR Global, whose Armour Energy subsidiary already has the Kanywataba Block, and local company PetroAfrik Energy Resources East Africa, in a joint venture with Nigeria’s Niger Delta Petroleum Resources, the New Vision daily reported.

Uganda
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A French court has dismissed an appeal by two French and four Ugandan NGOs seeking to challenge Total’s handling of the Tilenga development project. The case is the first to be brought under France’s 2017 Corporate Duty of Vigilance law, and the NGOs hope to establish a precedent with wider implications for Total and other international companies.

Uganda
Issue 429 - 17 December 2020

REPP invests £1m in battery supplier

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The UK’S Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP), part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on 11 December announced that it had signed an agreement to invest £1m ($1.3m) of equity in renewable-powered battery rental company Mobile Power. The investment was part of a £2m series A funding round.

Gambia | Sierra Leone | Nigeria | Uganda | Zambia | Liberia
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The United Kingdom’s Renewable Energy Performance Platform on 11 December announced that it had signed an agreement to invest £1m equity in renewable-powered battery rental company Mobile Power.

Sierra Leone | Nigeria | Uganda | Zambia | Liberia | Gabon
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While Tullow Oil has completed the $575m sale of its Uganda assets to operator Total, removing one barrier to a final investment decision (FID), development of the Lake Albert oil project is likely to take some time. With the year-end fast approaching, Ugandan energy minister Mary Goretti now says she expects FID in H1 2021, though Total had previously talked of a target of end-2020.

Uganda | Tanzania
Issue 427 - 19 November 2020

Kenya/Ethiopia/Uganda: UNHCR solar tender

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched prequalification for a tender to develop small solar PV systems to power its operations in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Contractors will finance, build and operate plants at up to ten UNHCR sites. Expression of interests are due by 30 November. A request for proposals is scheduled to be issued in early 2021 and further tenders are expected.

Kenya | Uganda | Ethiopia
Issue 427 - 19 November 2020

EAPP progress

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Participants at an Africa Investment Exchange panel on strategies for regional integration and transmission investment on 27 October provided an update on the progress of the Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP), where the secretariat has been busy preparing for electricity trading and a growing network of interconnections. By far the most advanced construction work is on interconnectors between Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania, which are expected to transmit their first power between April and June next year.

Uganda | Rwanda | Ethiopia | Tanzania | Burundi | Eritrea
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Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited (UEGCL) invites bids by 11 January from consultants to act as owner’s engineer for the Muzizi hydropower project on the lower course of the Muzizi River in western Uganda.

Uganda
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched prequalification for a tender to develop small solar PV systems to power its operations across three countries.

Kenya | Uganda
Issue 426 - 05 November 2020

Uganda: Tullow sale nears completion

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Tullow Oil is finally set to close its $575m deal to sell its Ugandan assets to Total after the government and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) executed a binding tax agreement. Tullow, which announced in April that agreement in principle had been reached following discussions with President Yoweri Museveni, the URA and other government departments, said on 21 October the agreement reflected the pre-agreed principles on the tax treatment of the sale.

Uganda
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Uganda Electricity Generation Company (UEGCL) has invited bids by 19 October to provide technical support for operations and maintenance of the Karuma and Isimba hydropower plants on the Victoria Nile. The 183MW Isimba plant, which is located in the Kamuli District in the Eastern Region, about 40km downstream of the 250MW Bujagali station, was fully commissioned in March 2019.

Uganda