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The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme (Nelsap) has invited expressions of interest (EoIs) by 23 November from consultants to serve as owner’s engineer for the 90MW Rusumo Falls hydropower project on the Kagera River.

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

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 Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) now comprises 14 members. These are mainly state-owned utilities, although there are some other members, including Africa’s oldest independent generator,

State utility Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has invited expressions of interest by 1 February 2012 from engineering, procurement and construction contractors to

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 project’s estimated $419.2m cost is being jointly financed by the World Bank Group, European Investment Bank, Development Bank of Central African States

The World Bank board has approved $250m in funding for the Eskom Renewables Energy Support Project, to help implement the Upington concentrating solar power and Sere wind power plants.

China’s Fenxy Mining Industry Limited has won Kenya’s first coal mining licence, for two blocks in the Mui Basin in the Kitui and Mwingi area of central eastern Kenya. The blocks, C and D, were offered in an open tender launched in September 2010.

With generation capacity finally creeping upwards, the federal government is turning to foreign investors to provide the huge sums needed to overcome crippling power shortages. But targets still remain both ambitious and insufficient, writes David Slater in Abuja

Though World Bank funding has been secured for exploration drilling, there remains considerable uncertainty over project finance and partnership arrangements to develop geothermal potential, writes Adrian J Browne

The Energy Water and Sanitation Authority is seeking expressions of interest for the construction of a 220kV transmission line between Mirama

Kenya Electricity Generating Company has given a consortium of Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corporation and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering Company a turnkey contract for the Olkaria I extension and the new

Doubts remain over the substance and implementation of key elements of government policy towards the electricity supply industry and major projects intended to overcome shortfalls in generation capacity, according to a range of government and Eskom statements in recent weeks.

An eventual move towards cost-reflective tariffs is not ruled out, but “a rise in the price of electricity is out of the question during the next five years”, Sonelgaz Holding president director-general Noureddine Bouterfa said on 10 October, as he announced the state utility’s 2010 results.

The long-mooted expansion of the Azito power plant is set to go ahead with the signing of an amended concession agreement by Globeleq Generation subsidiary Azito Energie SA.