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The government in Kinshasa is looking to impose President Joseph Kabila Kabange’s vision of how the world should do business with Democratic Republic of Congo, as it struggles to work with a pitifully small state budget, substandard governance and a woeful lack of human resources to meet huge demands for everything from basic health and education services to building transport, energy and other infrastructure almost from scratch

Sasol New Energy Holdings has given Foster Wheeler’s Global Engineering and Construction Group a contract to carry out a feasibility study for a gas-fired power generation plant at Sasolburg

Kenya Power and Lighting Company is holding a rights issue to raise up to KSh10bn ($119m) to finance upgrade projects

After years of trying to get the Mmamabula power project off the ground, CIC Energy Corporation has been bought by coal-hungry Indian power developer JSW Energy

With the political elite gearing up to battle it out for the 2011 presidential nomination, the incumbent ‘GoodluckSambo’ ticket is looking for some ‘easy wins’ to outflank opponents. On the agenda is a revival of the stalled electricity sector liberalisation programme, writes Jon Marks in Abuja and Lagos

Construction work on the milestone 36MW wood-chip burning power plant in Monrovia is set to begin in early 2011, according to its sponsor

The emergence of a renewables programme is among the elements of the new strategy sketched out in recent weeks by energy and mines minister Youcef Yousfi

State comany Société Nationale d’Electricité (Snel) and India’s Kalpataru have signed a construction contract for a second high-voltage transmission line from the Inga dam to Kinshasa

The African Development Bank’s concessional loans arm is considering a UA93.75m loan and UA58m grant for a project to improve the electricity transmission system

Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et du Gaz announced on 25 November that it had been awarded a TD100m ($69m) contract by Rwanda Electricity Corporation to connect 50,000 households in six provinces in the north-east to the national grid

Tideland Signal has supplied a solar-powered rotating beacon kit to the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority to automate the historic lighthouse at Jamestown, Accra.

Officials have developed an impressive roster of hydropower projects to provide electricity to Cameroon’s three regional grids and, eventually, to neighbouring countries. As shown in the map below, the government has authorised some 24 power projects with more than 4,000MW installed capacity. These

The Algesco joint venture of GE Oil & Gas with state companies Sonatrach and Sonelgaz has opened a new service centre at Boufarik, 35km from Algiers

Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Group Inc and Genoa-based Ansaldo Energia on 18 November announced that they had been awarded a contract to design and build a 420MW gas-fired combined cycle thermal power plant at Sousse, by Tunisian utility Société Tunisienne de l’Eléctricité et du Gaz (Steg) .

Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) has invited expressions of interest to prequalify to build a 150MW wind farm 12km from the Taza region. Tenders will be issued in Q1 2011, ONE said in its EoI announcement, for the project to serve as the first