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The Central Electricity Board (CEB) has launched a tender for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 14MW of battery storage. The systems are to be located at four substations: 4MW at Jin Fei, 2MW at La Tour Koenig, 4MW at Anahita and 4MW at Wooton. All four systems are to be running within a year of the contract being awarded. The batteries will be able to provide power at their rated capacity for at least 15 minutes to help stabilise the grid.

Mauritius | Mayotte
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Italy’s Enertronica Group has acquired a second 6MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project at Okatope, and is reported to have begun construction on its first 6MW project at Trekkopje, a former uranium mine in Erongo region. The plants are among the first of 14 preferred bidders to have signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with state utility NamPower under the country’s renewable energy feed-in tariff (REFiT) scheme, which provides a base rate of N$1.37 (US$0.088c)/kWh. They are the latest in a series of small-scale renewable power projects following French developer Innovent’s Namibian subsidiary Innosun, which is developing the 4.5MW Omaruru solar PV facility which signed a PPA late last year, and the 6MW Lüderitz wind farm.

Namibia
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As Africa enters the 2020s, issues of climate change and sustainability have gained greater urgency even if not everyone agrees on the way ahead. With desertification and water shortages affecting many regions, Africa has joined the stop-start transition away from a carbon-based economy; the percentage of on- and off-grid renewables is growing in the energy mix, with solar, and to a lesser extent wind, taking a lead, promoted by large public procurement projects and ever more private initiatives.

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A host of development finance institutions (DFIs) are lining up to support approximately 1.5GW of solar photovoltaic projects in the second round of Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company’s solar feed-in tariff (FiT) programme. Many of the 33 candidate projects that are still in the running are expected to reach financial close in August or September, before a 27 October deadline. The Benban solar park in Upper Egypt, where the projects will be located, will become the largest installation of its kind in the world and will raise hopes of establishing a commercially competitive solar industry in the country.

Egypt
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The dispute over the management of Moroccan renewables developer Platinum Power has shifted into a new phase. A 21 March decision by the Casablanca Commercial Court allowing the company to continue trading means that it is now up to a wide group of stakeholders to chart a route out of its difficulties. Chief among these are the company’s creditors, but they also include the shareholders, judicial authorities and even the government.Platinum is developing the Tayaboui and Gao hydro projects in Côte d’Ivoire and the Makay hydro plant in Cameroon.

Morocco
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The Bambous solar photovoltaic power plant has begun operating in the western Rivière Noire district. With peak output of 15.2MW, it is the first utility-scale solar facility to be built in the country. Germany’s Tauber Solar Energietechnik GmbH and Mauritian firm Sarako, founded in 2013 to develop solar energy in Mauritius and southern Africa, signed an energy supply agreement for the project with the Central Electricity Board (CEB) amid a flurry of renewable energy activity in mid-2013. Germany’s Conecon GmbH was the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the project, which is owned by Sarako. Tianwei supplied the solar panels, while Switzerland’s ABB provided inverters and transformers.

Mauritius
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The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) has approved an investment guarantee worth up to $250m for the 310MW Lake Turkana wind farm, inching the project towards financial close. The project company signed financing agreements worth $687m in March and has already received partial risk guarantees from the African Development Bank (AfDB) worth $27m, the first to be issued by the AfDB in a low-income country, after the World Bank pulled out of the project in 2012.The plant is expected to begin operating in early 2016, with full operation expected by 2019. Power is anticipated to be produced at a cost of Ksh9/kWh (10c/kWh).

Kenya
Issue 189 - 26 June 2010

China wins $838m dams contracts

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The Khartoum government’s Dams Implementation Unit (DIU) has signed contracts with China Three Gorges Project Corporation and the China International Water and Electric Corporation for the $838m Upper Atbara Dams Complex Project in north-east Sudan.

Sudan
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General Electric Hydro France and Freyssinet International have signed a $53.7m contract to rehabilitate the spillway of the Kariba dam. The contract was signed on 24 May but was only announced on 1 July. The only other bidder, an Italian joint venture of CMC di Ravenna and ATB Riva Calzoni, was rejected for submitting a non-compliant bid.

Zambia | Zimbabwe
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Launched by President Barack Obama in Cape Town one year ago, the US Power Africa initiative has been making bold claims about its early successes in a campaign to boost sub-Saharan Africa’s installed generation capacity by some 10GW and connect some 20m more homes and businesses to the grid by 2020 (AE 258/5). Power Africa claims it will make some $7bn available in financial support and loan guarantees from 12 government agencies, led by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), Overseas Private Investment Corporation and US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

Issue 294 - 13 February 2015

South Africa: Grassridge wind start-up

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EDF Energies Nouvelles subsidiary InnoWind has commissioned the 61.5MW Grassridge wind farm in Eastern Cape Province. The wind farm, in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, consists of 20 Vestas V112 wind turbines, each with a unit capacity of 3.075MW. The Grassridge wind farm is the first of three projects awarded to EDF Energies Nouvelles in 2012 under the government’s renewable energy independent power producer procurement (REIPPP) programme. The Grassridge wind farm is 60% owned by InnoWind, an 80%-held subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, and 40% owned by local partners.

South Africa
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Italy’s Enel Green Power has begun construction of three solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, Aurora, Paleisheuwel and Tom Burke, with a total installed capacity of 231MW. The 82.5MW Aurora plant is in Northern Cape Province, the 82.5MW Paleisheuwel plant is in Western Cape Province, and the 66MW Tom Burke plant is in Limpopo Province.

South Africa
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The Egyptian government has asked for binding commitments from financiers and developers involved in wind and solar feed-in tariff (FiT) projects. Those unwilling to confirm their participation by 30 June may be given a chance to transfer their projects into a second phase of the programme, although this has yet to be confirmed. A few major institutions have already said they will not take part, but other projects are going ahead.

Egypt
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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