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The World Bank has been discussing two new loans to Egypt Electricity Holding Company to add to thermal generation capacity

The long-awaited merger of the kingdom’s two major utilities, Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) and Office National de l’Eau Potable (Onep) into a single public sector company called Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau (Onee) has finally been approved by the Chamber of Counsellors.

Eskom and the African Development Bank (AfDB) signed two loan agreements totalling $365m in Washington on 25 September for the first large-scale implementation of renewable wind and solar generation in Eskom’s history.

The US’ Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) has approved a loan of up to $310m for Ormat Technologies to finance a project to double the generating capacity of the Olkaria III geothermal power plant.

China is once again wooing the new Guinean government, offering badly needed power investment and a major bauxite project, writes Our Conakry Correspondent

Energy and mines minister Moise Bucumi has promised an improvement in power supply following the signing of a contract with Tanzania-based generator supplier Pivotech for 25MW of additional power.

Tanzania and Uganda have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate the development and operation of the Kikagati-Murongo hydropower project on their joint border.

GE is to supply six gas turbines to the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company for the Giza North and Banha combined-cycle power plants under contracts totalling $300m, adding 2,250MW – or 10% – of capacity to the power grid

Eskom has given ABB a contract to construct two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants. The pilot plants, each of one hectare, will be located on greenfield sites adjacent to the coal-fired power stations at

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering E300m ($410m) of financing for the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy’s planned 500MW solar power plant

Peter Earl has quit as chief executive of private power developer IPSA Group, and will be

Tunisia appears to have abandoned hopes of launching independent power projects (IPPs) during the current period of political reform and economic uncertainty. The much-needed expansion of its power generation capacity

Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries has announced plans for a 50MW methane power plant at Lake Kivu. “It’s very early to talk in accurate numbers, but we think investing in the first 50MW will be in the range of between

Cairo Electricity Production Company has given Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries a contract valued at $181m for the civil works package for the 1,500MW

African Minerals' need to power its iron ore project seems difficult to reconcile with the government's aims to bring electricity to domestic users, writes Adrian J Browne. Lahmeyer International has completed a prefeasibility study for the phase II expansion of Sierra Leone's Bumbuna hydro project for Joule Africa, which signed a memorandum