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Drilling next year will test whether north-west Africa’s previously unfashionable deep offshore could produce an equivalent of Ghana’s Jubilee field. A declaration of commerciality for the Banda gas field off Mauritania could add to the industry’s interest in lesser-known Atlantic Margin plays, write John Hamilton and Thalia Griffiths

AEG Power Solutions subsidiary 3W Power has opened South Africa’s first utility scale solar inverter manufacturing facility

South Africa still intends to play a prominent role in Grand Inga, but other players are also seeking to tap the hydroelectric dam complex’s vast potential, writes François Misser with Jon Marks

The National Council on Privatisation has announced preferred bidders for ten power distribution companies (discos) of the 11 offered for sale. Integrated Energy, partnered with Manila Electric of the Philippines, placed the highest bid for the Yola, Ibadan, Eko and Ikeja discos

In a ceremony timed to coincide with celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Uganda’s independence, President Yoweri Museveni and the Aga Khan formally inaugurated the Bujagali dam on 8 October.

Power and automation technology giant ABB has been awarded a $50m contract by Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa to rehabilitate the Songo HVDC converter station.

Egypt, control systems, Suez thermal, East Delta Electricity Production Company

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is seeking expressions of interest for the development of up to 560MW of geothermal power capacity at the Olkaria field

Brazil’s Queiroz Galvão Construction has completed a preliminary study on the 700MW Mnyera hydroelectric project on the Rufiji River and delivered it to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada) in Dar es Salaam

Markets have welcomed the announcement that five groups have been selected to take over PHCN’s generation plants, and that distribution bids will be announced soon. But enthusiasm about Nigeria’s power privatisation programme is tempered by concerns over some of the shareholders, write Leo Lawal in Lagos and Jon Marks.

Chinese solar power equipment supplier JinkoSolar Holding Company Ltd announced on 27 September that it had signed a co-operation agreement with China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Company Ltd (CJIC) to provide technical support for CJIC’s 50MW solar power project in Garissa, north-west Kenya.

Implementation of the wind farm contract awarded by Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) to France’s EDF Energies Nouvelles and Japan’s Mitsui group is dragging, as details remain to be finalised of a project that sources say is technically challenging.

The African Development Bank’s soft loans arm has approved $348m in funding for an electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia. The $1.26bn Eastern Electricity Highway Project is the first step towards a regional power pool which many hope will curb electricity price increases and improve security of supply.

It has taken months to negotiate and caused arguments about its cost and policy implications across recession-hit Morocco, but underlining the North African kingdom’s green credentials, construction at the Ouarzazate solar complex should start by the end of the year, writes Jon Marks in Marrakech

The proceeds from Zambia’s successful debut Eurobond issue will be spent on upgrading energy and transport infrastructure, writes Chiwoyu Sinyangwe in Lusaka.