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Confronted by the challenges posed of bringing people together during a period of continued global health, the organisers of the Africa Energy Forum (aef) and Africa Investment Exchange (AIX): Power & Renewables have agreed to work in parallel to hold their industry-leading events in London during the week of 15-19 November.

The government was dealt a blow on 15 June when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in favour of Betamax, after the Mauritian-Singaporean petroleum products supply joint venture had appealed to the arbiter in London against a Supreme Court of Mauritius (SCM) decision against it.

The 11MWp solar PV plant at the Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Butere, Kakamega county will be commissioned in September, a spokesman told African Energy.

State giant Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract on 17 August with China Machinery Engineering Company (CMEC) and General Electric (GE).

Two biomass projects planned by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (Unido) will be retendered, Unido Procurement Services Division officer Alex Eruwa told African Energy.

A 26kW solar PV system and 60kWh battery donated to the Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in Mpumalanga has been commissioned.

Swiss impact investor ResponsAbility has spun off its ResponsAbility Renewable Energy Holding subsidiary four years ahead of schedule.

State utility Zesco’s debts have reached $3.5bn – $1bn more than previously thought – due to a combination of rising liabilities to independent power producers (IPPs), long-running disputes with mining firms and the depreciation of the local currency, according to energy minister Peter Kapala.

Enel Green Power (EGP) has told African Energy that its 138MW Garob wind project in South Africa is expected online “in the coming weeks”. The project was selected as a preferred bidder in an expansion of the fourth round of the renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme (REIPPP4) in June 2015.

Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) executive secretary Simbi Wabote said the 10,000 b/d Duport modular refinery is on track to be completed before the end of December.

Sonatrach president director-general was elected to head the Association Algérienne de l’Industrie du Gaz (AIG).

The 75MWdc/60MWac Salima solar PV plant started commercial operations on 15 November, becoming the first solar independent power project in Malawi to connect to the grid and the first large international IPP developed under a new regulatory set-up.

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.

TotalEnergies said on 9 December it had finalised the $350m sale of the Cap Lopez Terminal and the assets of its 58%-owned affiliate TotalEnergies EP Gabon.

The World Bank Group is seeking expressions of interest (EoIs) from consultants to provide an analysis of the market readiness for private sector participation in solar hybrid mini-grids in Niger.