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With the new government promising to push public/private partnership (PPP) power projects, the federal Ministry of Power is expected to promote several power projects

Plans are moving ahead for a new hydroelectric plant in Rio Muni, the underdeveloped continental part of Equatorial Guinea for which the government has big urban and industrial development plans. This will bring national capacity to 700MW by 2015, the authorities say – up from 500MW by 2012, when significant new capacity comes on line. Installed capacity is now around only 100MW, of which 40MW is for Malabo and Bioko

Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) is seeking bids for the electrical equipment and instrument installation package for the 750MW Banha combined cycle power station

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a $283,000 grant to Egyptian company Energy Allied Egypt (EAE) for a feasibility study of a waste-to-energy scheme.

Recent pressure on the Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan shillings poses problems for power developers and others operating in East Africa’s fast-growing economies, with echoes of the late 1990s events in Asia that undermined that region’s burgeoning IPP sector, writes Kevin Godier with Jon Marks

The government of elected President Alpha Condé plans to introduce a package of electricity sector reforms to create a framework for investment that will allow Guinea to harness its estimated 6,000MW hydroelectric potential

Turkish company Karpower International is hoping to add its fleet of ‘power ships’, which have a combined capacity of over 1,000MW, to the growing arsenal of emergency and mid-term solutions for African coastal states that need quick solutions to electricity supply deficits

Finland’s Wärtsilä has installed three 8MW diesel generators at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM)’s flagship Konkola Deep Mining Project (KDMP) to supply power if the grid supply fails. KCM, like other mining companies, is supplied by Copperbelt Energy Company (CEC), which buys the electricity from state power utility Zesco under a bulk power supply arrangement

Following the withdrawal of Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) from the 450MW Maria Gléta project, the West African Power Pool (WAPP) has prequalified a list of bidders to develop the Benin plant and Ghana’s 400MW Aboadze project on a public-private partnership basis

With a development strategy that relies on promoting mining and forestry projects requiring large-scale electricity supply, Gabon is pressing ahead with plans to build six hydropower dams

India’s CESC Ltd plans to set up a 2x600MW plant near the Boikarabelo mine at Waterberg to supply the South African grid. The century-old Calcutta (Kolkata) electricity supply company has many generation projects at home, but this is a rare foreign operation linked to a mining investment. The Boikarabelo mine is being developed by Australian Stock Exchange-listed Resource Generation Ltd (through its wholly owned Bantal Singapore Pte Ltd unit).

The beleaguered MDC energy minister is talking up prospects for encouraging investment to relaunch major generation schemes and, following a series of disappointments, expects to test investor appetite in coming months

Nersa is to hold public hearings on 13 July to assess applications for licences for the 670MW Avon Peaking Power and the 335MW Dedisa Peaking Power

A shift of donor strategy to develop the mighty Grand Inga scheme through a series of phased projects divided into investor-friendly, bite-sized chunks is intended to move plans for Africa’s biggest hydropower source closer to reality.

With the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other stakeholders focused on making Grand Inga work as a major boost to the continental economy – making a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) mega-scheme a reality – Democratic Republic of Congo officials and other sources canvassed by African Energy insisted that plans to build Inga III were going ahead – and that the project need not have a negative impact on water flows and the Grand Inga scheme, as other sources have suggested.