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The government hopes to increase supply to meet growing demand from the mining sector – provided it can find the money. Current installed capacity of 43MW barely meets half of demand.
Water and power utility Régie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) has extended the deadline for bids to rehabilitate the 18MW Rwegura and 1.44MW Nyemanga hydro plants to 16 May.
Water and electricity utility Régie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) seeks bids by 15 April for the rehabilitation of mechanical,
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.
The Energie des Grand Lacs (EGL) project company has invited expressions of interest by 11 February from consultants to assist with the development of the 145MW Ruzizi III run-of-river hydropower project on the Ruzizi River (AE 195/7).
A number of recent developments raise hopes of a solution to Burundi’s chronic power shortages
The World Bank has approved $15.4m of grant funding for an emergency energy project to support state power and water utility Régie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) and to prevent a repeat of the severe power cuts of summer 2009.
The politically complex redevelopment of the Ruzizi River cascade’s power schemes seems finally to be taking shape, writes David Slater
African Capitalisation Fund to strengthen banks; AfDB funding for IDC; AfDB awards $15m grant to aid Burundi’s ERSP III; SNR, Denton Wilde Sapte to merge
REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Third production well on Azurite field; LIBYA: NOC announces six discoveries; BURUNDI: Surestream contracts RPS for EIA; EGYPT: Second Matruh find for Apache; LIBYA: Neptune order thought to mark start of Gazprom project; LIBYA: Poles launch drilling programme; MAURITANIA: Dana, Petronas to drill; NIGERIA: Acergy contract; TANZANIA: BG confirms Ophir farm-in
BURUNDI: Substation rehab, grid protection; CAPE VERDE: Lighting supply; DR CONGO: Snel management support contract; MALI: O&M contract for HFO plant; MALI: 25MW unit planned for Taoussa dam; MOZAMBIQUE: European capacity-building contract; MOZAMBIQUE: Multi-purpose dams to power centre; NIGER: Kandadji dam studies and supervision order; TOGO: Power rehab tender
UK private company Surestream Petroleum has just been awarded Burundi Block B, on the north-east side of Lake Tanganyika, in addition to Block D which it already holds. Surestream, which sponsors the Burundi national football team, was founded in
ALGERIA/MOROCCO: 1,000MW, 400kV interconnection; BURUNDI: Spare parts contract; EGYPT: World Bank lines up Giza North CCGT financing; EGYPT: Nuclear power plant purchase; LIBYA: Gecol asks Hyundai to build Tripoli West; MADAGASCAR: Rural electrification equipment tender; SUDAN: Khartoum wants nuclear ‘training’ reactor
State water and power utility Regie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité (Regideso) seeks bids by 17 August for the rehabilitation of five hydropower plants with a combined installed capacity of 19.6MW and two distribution networks.
