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Trafigura subsidiary Puma Energy said it had snapped up a minority stake in South African renewable energy company MBHE Group.

Electricity trading platform Etana Energy will supply 195GWh of renewable energy to real estate investor Growthpoint’s retail, office and industrial sites around South Africa.

Johannesburg-based data company Teraco plans to build a solar PV plant in Free State province, after being allocated grid capacity by state utility Eskom. Electricity generated from the plant will be wheeled across Eskom and municipal power networks to Teraco’s operations throughout South Africa.

Nairobi-headquartered developer Equator Energy has commissioned a 0.75MWp grid-tied solar PV plant for Nandi Tea Estates (NTE)’s factory in Nandi County, 300km north-west of Nairobi.

Kinross’ huge solar-storage C&I project will be Mauritania’s second-largest installed PV plant when commissioned in the coming weeks.

Construction work is nearly complete on a 15MW coal-fired plant to supply power to Sabi Star’s lithium mine in Zimbabwe’s Buhera district. African Energy takes a closer look at one of Zimbabwe’s three biggest lithium projects.

Approval from the interim parliament in Conakry for an unprecedented-for-Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and gas-to-power plant could be the first step towards meeting a predicted huge mining-driven increase in electricity demand. The project’s scale has raised eyebrows, but could prove transformative if it goes ahead, writes Marc Howard.

Commercial and industrial solar company CrossBoundary Energy is calling for more data sharing on the performance of solar assets, after finding that solar irradiation is being systematically overestimated at its sites in Africa. The overestimation is resulting in 1-2% lower returns for investors and 5-20% less savings for customers than anticipated.

The state-owned Administrative Capital For Urban Development – the developer of the New Administrative Capital being built 35km east of Cairo – has contracted a subsidiary of the Ministry of Military Production (MMP) to install 16MW of rooftop solar panels in the complex. At the end of September, it ordered Benha Electronics Company – also known as Military Factory 144 – to implement the project.

Nigeria’s Daystar Power Energy Solutions announced it has reached an agreement with the privately-held, Lagos-based Seven-Up Bottling Company (SBC) to install 10.5MWp of solar PV capacity across five of its sites.

Platinum miner Zimplats has received a licence from the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) to build 185MW of solar PV capacity at two mines. Construction work is now expected to start later this year, once the company’s board has approved a bankable feasibility study for the project.

State-owned Development Bank of Namibia has signed an agreement to fund construction of the Rosh Pinah Solar Park that will supply 5.4MW for zinc and lead miner Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation in south-western Namibia.

Investec Property has announced plans for a 5.25MW rooftop solar PV project in Corbunia Mall, Durban, which it has dubbed the continent’s largest rooftop solar project.

Sedibelo Platinum Mines (SPM) is negotiating a 75MW renewable energy (RE) programme for its mines, which includes securing 40MW of solar and wind power from sites in Limpopo and Western Cape via a wheeling arrangement.

Private equity fund manager African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) has taken a majority stake in three solar plants being developed by mining company Harmony Gold in South Africa.