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Finland’s Wärtsilä has renewed its partnership with state utility Onee to maintain thermal power plants at Tan Tan and Dakhla.

Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is offering a three-year maintenance contract for the 132MW coal-fired power station. The deadline for bids is 12 July.

Tenders for solar power with energy storage and mini-grids under the Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariff programme are expected to start soon, after two years of planning.

The New and Renewable Energy Authority has signed a trio of land agreements in a strategic area the Egyptian government hopes will become one of the world’s largest zones of wind output with close to 30GW of installed production.

Scatec-owned Release’s expansion of solar and battery storage power plants is a success for its flexible leasing model and could reduce Cameroon’s dependence on diesel generators.

In a surprise announcement, Guinea and Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deploy floating nuclear power capacity under a multi-decade agreement. Yet such schemes still seem some time away and Moscow’s track record in developing African nuclear power is poor.

Gemcorp Capital has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Energy and Water which could lead to excess power generated in Angola being exported to Namibia and the Southern African Power Pool (Sapp).

According to cabinet secretary for energy Davis Chirchir, the Kenyan government’s moratorium on IPPs is ‘unsustainable’, amid the risk of future loadshedding due to shortage of supply, while other advances are in the pipeline, including wheeling tariffs and the supply of power through embedded networks, writes Neville Otuki in Nairobi.

Electricity-starved Guinea Bissau will get $48m from the International Development Association, Green Climate Fund and Esmap to catalyse solar energy generation and improve on low levels of electricity access.

Pan-African private equity firm Inspired Evolution has closed the second round of its Evolution III fund, following on from its first $200m close in March 2023. Looking to build on its substantial support for African renewable IPPs, Evolution III will also back commercial and industrial (C&I), off-grid, microgrid and energy efficiency firms.

The African Development Bank has substantially increased its capital to stay aligned with ratings agency demands and is using a wider range of financial instruments to raise funds as group president Akinwumi Adesina shows off the AfDB’s ever increasing ambitions for infrastructure development and a wide range of other initiatives.

Guinea’s Linsan substation has been fully commissioned with the completion of a 225/110kV transformer installation. The facility is regionally significant as it is where two strategic 225kV international networks interconnect: the West African Power Pool (Wapp)’s Transco Côte d’Ivoire-Liberia-Sierra Leone-Guinea (CLSG) line and the Organisation for the Development of the Gambia River (OMVG)’s double-circuit Loop line.

The increasingly assertive African Development Bank’s support for the proposed multi-user Liberty infrastructure corridor would enable production from HPX’s Mount Nimba iron ore play and increase demand for power from regional hydroelectric schemes. It could also lead to adjacent iron ore developments in Liberia, which is strongly backing the scheme, writes Marc Howard.

A lot of officials, developers and financiers are working very hard to bring electricity supply projects to market and into service, but persistent bottlenecks across the value chain still too often stall otherwise good projects, according to African Energy Live Data’s analysis of the deal flow. The completion of stalled projects, along with a roll-out of mini-grids and decentralised solutions, would lead poorer consumers further towards universal access, while giving wealthier urban populations and commercial clients improved services and more productive uses of energy.

Zurich-based commercial and industrial (C&I) developer Candi has received equity finance from new investors to bankroll solar projects in South Africa and India.