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The Opec Fund for International Development on 27 October signed two loan agreements worth $70m to finance power projects

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

UK-based clean technology promoter Blue Sphere Corporation has signed an agreement for the installation of a gas collection system and flare, including the right to negotiate for renewable electricity generation, at the Oblogo and Mallam landfill sites in Accra

Portugal’s Martifer Solar inaugurated its second solar photovoltaic power plant in Cape Verde on 2 November. The 5MW PV plant, built on a fixed structure covering 13 hectares in Cidade da Praia on Santiago Island, is expected to generate annual output of 8.12GWh.

The European Investment Bank has agreed several loans for North African power projects, including the Giza North power plant in Egypt, the Sousse power plant in Tunisia, and funding for the Tunisian transmission network.

Finance and international co-operation minister Américo Ramos said on 23 October that the government was mobilising funds from foreign partners to invest in the electricity sector. Ramos said the Santo Amaro 8.5MW thermal power station

Independent power company Copperbelt Energy Corporation has invited expressions of interest by 19 November for an engineering, procurement and construction contract to develop the 40MW Kabompo Gorge hydroelectric scheme in north-west Zambia. The power company, which supplies electricity to mines in the Copperbelt province, said it plans to issue invitations for bids from pre-qualified bidders in March 2011.

The European Investment Bank, Egyptian Electricity Holding Company and Cairo Electricity Production Company (CEPD) have agreed a €300m loan for the construction of the Giza North 1,500MW combined-cycle gas-fired plant, 30km north-west of Cairo.

A request for developers to prequalify DRC government revives Inga III with BHP's to build the Inga III hydropower dam opens a new chapter in the protracted saga of efforts to produce more electricity from the world-scale hydro resource on the Congo river. Having waited years for tender documents to emerge, the government has set an extremely ambitious schedule for potential developers to bid, ahead of DRC's election year, writes Jon Marks in Kinshasa

An electricity expansion project will help diversify and expand the country's power sources, writes Kimemia Mugo. Kenya's strong track record of private power projects and its enthusiasm for green energy have helped its power utilities to mobilise $1.9bn from donors for the Kenya Electricity Expansion Project (KEEP). The project was launched on 21 October at a ceremony presided over by energy minister Kiraitu Murungi and attended by donors.

Electricity and energy minister Hassan Younis met petroleum and mineral resources minister Sameh Fahmy in late October to confirm the supply of additional gas to the Ministry of Electricity to meet targets in 2011.

Ukrainian hydro engineering company Ukrhydroproject has completed studies showing the potential for a system of 14 hydropower plants with a combined installed capacity of 720MW on the River Wele. The hydro plants would be constructed in two stages alongside a 110kV transmission system linking them to the major load centres, according to the company. The cascade could generate up to 5TWh per year, it said.

South African developer NuPlanet has been awarded a generation licence by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulation Council to build a 5MW hydropower plant at the Mutirikwi dam, Zimbabwe’s largest reservoir. Technical feasibility and environmental impact assessments for the Mutirikwi project would start next year, with procurement, contracting and construction to commence thereafter, managing director Anton-Louis Olivier said on 1 November.

Office National de l'Electricité and an international investment consortium on 25 October signed an emission reduction purchase agreement for a total 2m tonnes of CO2. The carbon credits fall within the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development