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US strategic consultancy Détente Group has signed agreements with the Ethiopian government to manage development of the country’s wind energy potential with support from President Barack Obama’s Power Africa Initiative. Détente managing partner Brien Morgan told African Energy that, based on the support received from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im Bank), the Department of Commerce’s Export Assistance Center, and a 25 September meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the government of Ethiopia has pledged to source the entire programme from the US renewable energy industry.

Ethiopia
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The Agence Nigérienne de Promotion de l’Electrification en Milieu Rural (ANPER) is seeking expressions of interest from consultants for a project to install off-grid solar power systems as part of a national rural electrification programme financed from a $30m loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

Niger
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Having reported that construction of its first solar unit at Ouarzazate, Noor I, developed by a group headed by Riyadh-based Acwa Power, has been brought in 30% under budget, Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen) is looking at a range of other projects and investments, including a major industrial development investment with France’s Alcen group.As well as expecting to bring the Ouarzazate complex’s capacity to a minimum 500MW with Noor IV, a 50MW solar photovoltaic (PV) unit, Masen is planning a further major contribution to the Moroccan solar energy target of installing a minimum 2GW by 2020.

Morocco
Issue 262 - 02 October 2013

Lake Turkana nears financial close

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Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) expects to bring its 300MW project in Kenya on line during 2015, constituting a large chunk of the 510MW of wind energy that the government plans to commission over the next 40 months. “Commissioning will probably be 2015, which will be 50MW, and then will be injected in tranches of 10MW, with the turbines erected at one per day,” LTWP founder and owner Chris Staubo told African Energy. The company is meeting lenders in London to go through the remaining conditions precedent, of which there are about 600. “The lenders and debt are in place, we have our term sheet. What remains now is to have a meeting in London with all the lenders to go through the various conditions precedent,” said Staubo, adding: “We foresee financial close in December this year.”

Kenya
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Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy developer Masdar is to build seven solar PV projects totalling 12MW under a contract signed on 21 January with the Ministry of Petroleum, Energy, and Mines. The projects in the towns of Boutilimit, Aleg, Aioune, Akjoujt, Atar, Al Shami and Boulenour will, on average, meet 30% of each town’s electricity demand when completed by Q1 2016, according to a press statement. The plants, which will reduce reliance on diesel, are sized to provide additional generation capacity as demand rises following upgrades to the local grids.

Mauritania
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur (BMCE) and the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) have signed a financing package for the 120MW Khalladi wind farm near Tangier – the first project to be supported by the EBRD’s new $250m fund for renewable generation in the southern and eastern Mediterranean. The EBRD and BMCE are providing E126m ($143m) to US-based developer UPC Renewables for the wind farm’s construction, operation and maintenance. The developer group comprises Saudi-based Acwa Power Global Services, UPC and investment fund Arif, managed by Infra Invest.

Morocco
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The enormous roster of energy sector investment projects announced at the Egypt Economic Development Conference at Sharm El-Sheikh in mid-March includes a number of firm projects to be funded by the government, and a larger number of independent power projects (IPPs) in gas, coal and renewables, some of which represent firm commitments and others which are much less likely to proceed. The overwhelming question is how the promised developments will be paid for alongside even more ambitious plans for the construction of a new $45bn capital city east of Cairo.

Egypt
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With all the talk about leapfrogging the grid, it is surprising how little the possible implications have filtered through to the debate about tariffs. The Africa Investment Exchange: Power and Renewables conference in London on 15-16 November saw a lively discussion about potential grid ‘disruptors’, in particular low-cost, small-scale renewable power sold directly to consumers. The technology has huge potential to provide clean power to households and industry at a fraction of the cost of the grid.

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Eren Renewable Energy and its partner African Energy Management Platform on 6 March announced the signing of a 15-year power purchase agreement with Iamgold Essakane gold mine to complement its existing diesel power plant with a 15MWp solar farm. The mine is 330km from Ouagadougou in northern Burkina and is not connected to the grid. It is the largest privately held business in the country and produced 400,000 ounces of gold in 2015. The 15MWp solar project, expected to be commissioned by year-end at a cost of $20m, will help decrease the mine’s fuel consumption by approximately 6m litres/yr.

Burkina Faso
Issue 199 - 03 December 2010

IDB funds rural electrification

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The Islamic Development Bank has signed loan agreements totalling $51.7m to finance the last phase of Morocco’s rural electrification programme (Perg)

Morocco
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The 2.4MW Mwenga wind farm is nearing completion after receiving a $1.2m loan from the UK-funded Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP). REPP investment manager Camco Clean Energy said three turbines had arrived at the project site in Mwenga in the Mufindi district of Iringa region and installation and testing were expected to be completed by early May. Once operational, the wind farm will supply a private rural grid network developed and operated by Rift Valley Energy Group.

Tanzania
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There are signs of movement, at last, on bidding for flagship solar and other renewables projects, to be installed at either end of the continent. 

Morocco | South Africa
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South African independent power developer Pele Green Energy has selected US-based independent economic and financial advisory firm Castalia LLC to conduct a feasibility study to assess the viability of a 75MW solar photovoltaic power project in Free State province. The contract is being funded by a grant awarded on 23 May by the US Trade and Development Agency.

South Africa
Issue 411 - 12 March 2020

Ethiopia: Dam talks stumble again

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Ethiopia’s failure to sign an agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) negotiated over a four-month period in the United States has resulted in angry recriminations. The US Department of the Treasury has been facilitating preparation of the agreement alongside teams from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia and with technical input from the World Bank. Egypt and Sudan are concerned about how quickly Ethiopia will fill the reservoir for the dam and the potential effect it will have on the reallocation of Nile River water rights.

South Sudan | Ethiopia
Issue 258 - 12 July 2013

Zimbabwe: Solar tender

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Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has invited bids for a 100MW solar power project in Gwanda, about 130km north- west of Bulawayo. The contract covers the funding, engineering, procurement and construction of the Gwanda/Plumtree solar project. A company named Green Solar Europa, in a consortium with local firm Intratrek Zimbabwe, has already expressed interest in the project, according to local media reports. A site visit took place on 5 July and bids are due by 23 July.

Zimbabwe