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Nexans has won some of the first contracts to be awarded by General Electric Company of Libya (Gecol) since the end of Qadhafi rule

London Stock Exchange-listed rental power and temperature control giant Aggreko opened a new $3m service centre in Walvis Bay on 23 August, its first in Namibia.

East Delta Electricity Production Company (EDEPC) is inviting bids to install mechanical equipment and pipes at the planned 650MW Suez power plant.

The cabinet has approved a draft treaty between South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the development of the Grand Inga hydro project. The draft was drawn up by a technical committee of officials from the two countries following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by their presidents in November.

There are clear signs that decision-making in the electricity sector is speeding up in line with energy and mines minister Yousef Yousfi’s plans to invest AD2trn ($24.8bn) to double national generation capacity by 2016.

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a joint initiative of the Danish government and the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved its first grant of $825,000 for the concept phase of the Green Tech Financial Facility.

As part of its efforts to improve the availability, reliability, efficacy and quality of electricity services in Conakry, Electricité de Guinée (EDG) has issued a tender for the supply of 16,000 single-phase prepaid meters and 4,000 three-phase prepaid meters with associated cables and connection materials.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation has announced an $80m loan to the Takoradi International Company (Tico), to part-finance the 110MW expansion of its Takoradi II gas-fired power plant (AE 236/8). Tico is 90% owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), with the other 10% held by Volta River Authority.

Standard Bank has registered a programme with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) executive board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to supply low-pressure solar water heaters to low-income households in South Africa.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed a senior loan of €57.5m ($69.9m) through its private sector window to support the design, construction and operation of two hydroelectric projects in Gabon. Both projects will be run-of-river, with the larger 70MW Chutes de l’Impératrice built in Ngounie province and the 52MW FE2 on the Okano River in the north of the country. The AfDB is also lead debt arranger among the development finance institutions.

A consortium of China’s Sepco3 and Nigeria’s Pacific Energy is preparing a bid for the construction of a new $4bn 1,200MW coal-fired plant in Benue State, Sepco chairman Deji Adeleke announced at the inauguration of the Sepco-Pacific Power Training Institute at Olorunsogo, according to local media reports.

State utility Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) is coming under new pressure due to the long hot summer coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which runs to 20 August.

Kenya has won praise for creating a good environment for private power investment, but its ambitious expansion plans will need a range of energy sources and managing this process is a complex business

Alstom has secured a E90m ($111.5m) order from the East Delta Electricity Production Company (EDEPC) for the supply of equipment for a 650MW steam cycle thermal power plant near Suez City, 150km east of Cairo.

The World Bank has approved an $85m support package to improve performance at the Société National d’Electricité du Sénégal (Senelec) and the reliability of electricity services in greater Dakar. The $93.5m Electricity Sector Support Project will finance the upgrading of transmission and distribution lines and substations, installation of prepayment meters, and a new customer management system at the utility.