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Ethiopia lacks a nationwide transmission and distribution network, especially in the rural areas where 85% of the population live.

The self-proclaimed water tower of Africa has made advances in developing its hydroelectric-driven industry, adding to generation capacity and strengthening regional interconnections.

AIM-listed green power developer Camco International has won two contracts in East Africa worth $1.8m in revenue over the next three years. The first is for a $1m solar photovoltaic (PV) clusters project in Tanzania, and the second for an $800,000 project to provide technical assistance to clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in Uganda.

The Rivers State government has given Alstom a €40m ($55m) contract to supply a 160MW GT13E2 gas turbine for the second phase of the Afam independent power plant to be built in Port Harcourt.

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.

Société Algérienne de Production de l’Electricite (SPE) has invited bids to build a 500-600MW gas-fired power plant in the Hassi Messaoud area, in the latest of a string of Sonelgaz Holding generation construction tenders for new capacity to be built on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis.

The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has invited expressions of interest from consultants for work on the planned 100MW Kom Ombo concentrated solar power facility.

The government has given its approval for India’s Jindal Steel & Power to launch studies for construction of a 2,640MW coal-fired power plant in Tete province.

Critical to better use of Nigeria’s hydrocarbons wealth are efforts to tackle infrastructure bottlenecks in power and transportation by implementing key projects.

ContourGlobal subsidiary KivuWatt has given Finland’s Wärtsilä Corporation a contract to supply the power plant for its project to harness methane gas from Lake Kivu. The plant will be powered by 20-cylinder Wärtsilä 34SG gas-powered engines and have an electrical output of 25MW.

The government and the state Electricity Development Corporation have signed a contract with China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE) for construction of the Lom Pangar dam to regulate the flow of the Sanaga River.

State utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (Steg), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank are working on a Clean Technology Fund (CTF) scheme, the Concentrated Solar Power scale-up investment plan, to develop a 100MW CSP unit.

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has issued a tender (SP 465 985) for the turnkey installation of a new coal storage area at Jorf Lasfar, where Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa)-owned Jorf Lasfar Energy Company 5&6 is expanding the coal-fired generation complex.

Under pressure to tackle crippling power shortages, Senelec has given Finland’s Wärtsilä Corporation turnkey contracts worth nearly E60m ($79m) to expand its two existing power plants at Bel Air and Kahone.

China’s Sichuan Hongda Group has signed a $3bn agreement for mining and power generation at the Mchuchuma coal and Liganga iron ore deposits in the Iringa region of southern Tanzania, described as the biggest private investment in East Africa, while China has agreed financing for new gas pipeline infrastructure.