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Water and energy minister Basile Atangana Kouna signed a production concession contract with EDF on 10 July, giving the company full rights to develop the Nachtigal hydro project. “This agreement is a significant step because this right that we are given by the government gives us the certainty that we have all opportunities to develop the project,” said EDF international development director Edouard Dahomé. He said initial technical studies for the project were almost complete. “We are straight on the path that we have designed, which spells out that, by the end of 2015 and beginning 2016, we will be able to take the final investment decision for the project.

Cameroon
Issue 406 - 19 December 2019

Ghana: Sinohydro builds Pwalugu dam

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Construction of the Pwalugu multipurpose dam in northern Ghana was launched on 29 November at a ceremony attended by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The $933m project is being built by China’s Sinohydro for the Volta River Authority (VRA) on the White Volta River on the boundary of the Upper East and North East regions. The project includes a dam with an elevation of 165 metres impounding a 350km2 reservoir, with an associated 60MW hydropower plant and a 50MW solar PV plant.

Ghana
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The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is seeking expressions of interest (EoIs) from consultants to undertake the design and supervision of the redevelopment of the Olkaria I geothermal power project. The project will increase the capacity of the smaller of the two existing facilities from 45MW to 50.7MW through the refurbishment or replacement of key equipment. KenGen and the government are seeking donor funding. EoIs are due by 25 May, with work to begin around July. The project is expected to last for 35 months.

Kenya
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The deadline for bids in the 70MW second round of Tunisia’s solar procurement programme and 130MW updated first round of its wind procurement programme has been extended from 15 August to 18 October. The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy announced on 30 May that 70MW of solar capacity would be tendered through the second round of its solar programme. A total of 60MW was allocated to projects up to 10MW in the tender, with 10MW allocated to projects up to 1MW.

Tunisia
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Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE) and the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) signed contracts with the Nareva Holding/Enel Green Power developer group on 19 November to build the long-awaited 300MW Boujdour wind farm. While Masen is making steady progress with renewables development, critics say progress is less sure on the legislative framework for private sector renewables, and on the government’s promised gas-to-power (GTP) development programme.

Morocco
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The total earmarked for energy projects to be funded by European Union (EU) development co-operation has risen tenfold for 2014-20 compared to 2008-13, from E350m ($382m) to E3.5bn, of which E2bn will be spent in Africa. The highest amounts are for Zambia (over E240m), and Rwanda (E200m), followed by Tanzania (E180m) and Burundi (E105m), although a European Commission source stressed that these are indicative figures. The source told African Energy that energy funds spent in Africa by the EU will come from four sources: countries’ individual National Indicative Programmes (NIPs) financed by the 11th European Development Fund (EDF), the Regional Indicative Programmes, the PanAfrican Programme and an Intra-ACP Programme covering African, Caribbean and Pacific states.

Issue 304 - 10 July 2015

Djibouti: MoU for wind farm

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Energy minister Ali Mahmoud Yacoub has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Electric for the construction of a 60MW wind farm, in line with Djibouti’s commitment to becoming the first African country to generate all its energy from renewable sources by the next decade. Feasibility and data collection studies for the project were carried out by Djibouti Electricity Authority. The wind farm will be constructed in two 30MW phases, and the project will include the construction of two 230kV power transmission lines in northern Djibouti.

Djibouti
Issue 323 - 13 May 2016

Wärtsilä moves into solar

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Finnish company Wärtsilä, a specialist in gas and liquid fuel-powered generation, has announced that it is moving into the development of solar and solar-thermal hybrid power plants. The company is offering engineering, procurement and construction delivery for solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants larger than 10MW as well as utility-scale hybrid systems based around coupling solar PV generation with its Smart Power Generation power plants. Wärtsilä is targeting markets in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and South East Asia and aims to generate annual sales worth €300m ($330m) by 2020.

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $116.7m loan to the Central Electricity Board (CEB) for the redevelopment of the Saint Louis power plant. The total cost will be $129.7m. The project will provide four 15MW medium-speed generators, a power station building, two 1,000m3 heavy fuel oil storage tanks and a 132kV substation.

Mauritius
Issue 347 - 02 June 2017

Botswana: 100MW solar tender

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Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is seeking expressions of interest from independent power producers (IPPs) to develop a 100MW solar plant in a joint venture with the utility. Bids are due by 14 June. BPC said the country’s presently available capacity averaged 260MW from the 600MW installed capacity Morupule B plant, while the 132MW Morupule A plant is undergoing refurbishment. Peak demand is 600MW and the gap is met through imports from South Africa and Mozambique, with the 90MW Orapa and 105MW Matshelagabedi emergency plants used when imports are unavailable or too expensive.

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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.

Burundi
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Egypt’s New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) is inviting expressions of interest from companies interested in providing technical assistance and project management services for the 100MW Kom Ombo concentrated solar power project. The contracts are being financed by a grant from the African Development Bank. Two contracts are being offered.

Egypt
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The Rural Electrification Authority is seeking expressions of interest from consultants to carry out an environmental and social impact assessment study for a proposed 50MW solar plant at Nanyuki in Laikipia County. The project follows the start-up last year of a 72MW solar plant at Uhuru Flowers in Nanyuki, developed by Kenya’s Azimuth Power, which provides energy to the company and feeds the surplus into the national grid. Work will include an environment baseline survey, assessment of the legislative and regulatory framework, determination of environmental and social impacts, assessment of occupational health and safety concerns, and development of a management plan, a resettlement action plan, and a monitoring plan.

Kenya
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The African Energy Live Data 2019 update shows that 9.6GW of net new capacity was added on the continent during the year. The figure includes off-grid and embedded plants in the public domain, as well as on-grid facilities. This is just over half of the capacity added in 2018 and significantly less than the five-year 2014-18 average of 13.2GW. The slowdown was widespread. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) excluding South Africa, 2.8GW was added, the lowest amount since 2014 and also significantly lower than the 2014-18 average of 3.8GW.

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New players continue to flood into South Africa, but the dominance of established giants was demonstrated again when Denmark’s Vestas announced its largest order in the country on 1 August. The company will supply, install and commission 105MW of turbines for three second round renewable energy independent power producer procurement (REIPPP) programme projects for Innowind, a company 80% owned by EDF Energies Nouvelles. Vestas will supply seven 3MW V112 turbines to the Chaba wind farm, eight 3MW V112s to Waainek and 20 3MW V112s to Grassridge, all located in the Eastern Cape.

South Africa