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Hélios Energie chief executive Karim Megherbi told a mid-November workshop in Brussels that the French solar company had lined up a pipeline of 100MW of photovoltaic (PV) projects in sub-Saharan

South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the 40-50GW Grand Inga hydro project during a 12 November visit to Lubumbashi by President Jacob Zuma

The grouping of the local ONA Group’s Nareva subsidiary and International Power (IP) have emerged as low bidder in the second attempt by state utility Office National de l’Electricité to award a contact for the 660MW coal-fired independent power plant at Safi.

State utility Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has invited expressions of interest by 1 February 2012 from engineering, procurement and construction contractors to build a 350MW coal-fired power plant, part of its $13.2bn investment programme for the 2011-16 period

Weeks ahead of DRC’s presidential election, the Senate Special Commission of Inquiry’s damning report shows the appalling extent of mismanagement at Snel since the utility’s creation, writes François Misser

The SAPP is putting on a brave face about prospects for the region’s electricity supply industry and its own performance, looking to inflows of investment to install more generation capacity across southern Africa and for the pool’s trading mechanisms to gain momentum

Renewable energy developer Compagnie de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (Coder) is seeking bids for the supply of generation equipment for the Chutes de l’Imperatrice and Chutes de Fe2 hydroelectric power projects.

The Energy Commission has asked for expressions of interest (EoIs) for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) or wind projects in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Volta regions

There have been too many false dawns as South Africa realities have failed to live up to the rhetoric of electricity supply industry liberalisation or diversification into renewables, but the 53 bids received by the Department of Energy (DoE) in the first round of bidding to build

Ghana Grid Company (GridCo) and Société Nationale d’Electricité du Burkina (Sonabel) are seeking expressions of interest from consultants for the provision of project management, engineering and construction supervision services for the 225kV Bolgatanga-Ouagadougou interconnection project

The World Bank Group (WBG) on 11 November committed $168m in loans and grants for the estimated $350m Kribi Gas Power Project, which it said was “expected to supply reliable electricity to over 160,000 households”, as well as helping to maintain operations at the Alucam smelter at Edea

The World Bank Group (WBG) on 11 November committed $168m in loans and grants for the estimated $350m Kribi Gas Power Project

Ghana Grid Company (GridCo) and Société Nationale d’Electricité du Burkina (Sonabel) are seeking expressions of interest from consultants for the provision of project management,

In another co-financing operation to support Cameroon’s power sector, the African Development Bank has approved a $71.1m loan to finance the Lom Pangar hydroelectric project

The Energy Commission has asked for expressions of interest (EoIs) for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) or wind projects in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Volta regions.