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Several projects are lining up technology partners and financiers in a move to generate electricity and stabilise Lake Kivu’s volatile methane gas.

Financial close for the Gecad venture’s 126MW thermal plant at Tema is expected by the end of July, with commissioning envisaged for May 2011, developer Aldwych International’s project director Christian Wright

Gabon is using only a fraction of its 6,000MW hydroelectric potential and is planning to raise finance to raise national generation capacity from 374MW to 1,000MW by 2016 and 5,000MW by 2020, according to energy and water resources minister Régis Immongault

A lack of trust between neighbours seems to have put in jeopardy what looked like a desirable cross-border transmission scheme in southern Africa, linking Malawi – which, with Tanzania, is the only Southern Africa Power Pool member not connected to its neighbours – to Mozambique.

Buchanan Renewables Fuel and two new Swedish co-investors are setting up a scheme to convert old rubber trees to woodchip for fuel to fire a 36MW power plant in Monrovia, as well as for export, writes Kevin Godier

Brazil’s Eletrobrás has signed an agreement with Electricidade de Moçambique for technical co-operation on a viability study of a transmission line in Mozambique

Gecol chairman Belgasem Mohamed Younis and UNDP resident representative Costanza Farina signed an agreement on 16 June to improve the electricity company’s management and systems

A prominent daughter of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has won a prestigious environmental prize

Kenya Electricity Generating Company has issued an international tender to build a pair of geothermal power plants with a total capacity of 280MW

With potentially difficult elections beckoning as African Energy went to press, progress on an impressive roster of potential hydroelectric projects remains subject to Guinea’s volatile politics

An international call for expressions of interest (EoIs) has been issued for work to prepare for the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant project

The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Small and Medium Enterprises has received three bids to build the planned Bizerte independent power project

The Khartoum government’s Dams Implementation Unit (DIU) has signed contracts with China Three Gorges Project Corporation and the China International Water and Electric Corporation for the $838m Upper Atbara Dams Complex Project in north-east Sudan.

A solution to the controversy over the sale of Texas-based Kosmos Energy’s stake in the Jubilee field is said to be in sight, having obsessed the Ghanaian political classes for months already

Faced with a rise in demand from Zambia’s mining sector, Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) is looking to expand its generation capacity