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A pre-feasibility study for Botswana Power Corporation’s planned 200MW solar thermal power project has identified five potential sites.

BENIN/TOGO: CEB seeks equipment for Nangbeto; BOTSWANA: Substation and transmission line tender; CAMEROON: Hyundai to build power plant for Logbaba gas; EGYPT: North Giza deadline deferred; ETHIOPIA: Equipment sought for Gibe 3; MOZAMBIQUE: Self Energy sets up local venture; TUNISIA: Bizerte bids due in January

After years of talk, the five governments supporting the Western Corridor (Westcor) project – Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, and South Africa – have decided to shelve the scheme to provide electricity from the planned 3,500MW Inga III to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).

BOTSWANA: More power from Mozambique; KENYA: KPLC seeks bids for HFO plants; MOZAMBIQUE: EdM seeks substation bids; NIGERIA: GE tie-up; SOUTH AFRICA: Koeberg maintenance; UGANDA: Fichtner to study Isimba hydro project

In a dramatic sign of the effect of the global downturn, middle-income Botswana has been forced to turn to the African Development Bank for a big chunk of budget support

Standard Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have been mandated as joint lead arrangers to finance the $1.6bn expansion of the Morupule B power station (AE 151/9).

No longer able to rely on imports from South Africa, Botswana is looking to coalbed methane to meet its long-standing power generation shortfall, writes Kevin Godier. Plans for a major coal bed methane (CBM) project are unfolding in north-east Botswana, where Kalahari Energy is looking to prove that the gas reserves at its lease areas in Mmashoro, on the eastern side of the Kalahari Karoo Basin, are commercially viable.

Botswana’s Mmamabula power plant project has taken another step forward with the signing of an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Shanghai Electric Group and the appointment of Absa Capital and Standard Bank as mandated lead arrangers.

As southern African demand soars and power imports become harder to obtain, Botswana is looking to its coal and coalbed methane to meet local electricity needs. A financing decision on the Morupule B coal-fired plant is expected this month, and a number of CBM schemes are making progress, writes Kevin Godier.

Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Company (Zesa) still owes money to the Cahora Bassa dam operating company Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), despite promises to clear its debt.

CIC Energy Corporation has appointed Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) as owner’s engineer for the Mmamabula power project, following a preliminary agreement with Shanghai Electric Group (SEC) as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor. Financial close on the project is due by mid-2009 (AE 150/6).

Following the scaling down of the Mmamabula project, BPC has selected Chinese companies to build the 600MW Morupule B plant.

After signs that Botswana’s proposed Mmamabula coal-fired power project had lost its way, CIC Energy has appointed Rothschild as the financial adviser for the scheme, whose downsized 1,200MW first phase retains a 2012/13 start-up date, writes Kevin Godier.

Egyptian giant seeks IPPs for Suez BOOT project; FREEPLAY ENERGY: Plans for Nigerian factory; ORASCOM: OCI teams up with Babcock-Hitachi; SADC: Regional infrastructure consultant sought

Denver-based Zulu Energy has unexpectedly found natural gas while drilling for coalbed methane.