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BOTSWANA: BPC seeks alternatives to Eskom supply; EGYPT: Lahmeyer gets consultancy order for Assiut HPP; ETHIOPIA: Gilgel Gibe 3 turbines out to bid; MOROCCO: EOIs sought for Abdelmoumen STEP; NIGERIA: Aqua Energy to build BOT hydro in Kano; SOUTH AFRICA: ABB wins $21m Eskom order

The availability of gas for domestic sectors – particularly power – is a major plank of the government’s reform programme (AE127/17).

Independent power producer Geometric Power Ltd has contracted GE Energy to supply three aeroderivative gas turbines for its private power plant at Aba, the commercial capital of Abia State (AE 126/9).

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) registered a 38% fall in net profit to $25.8m for the six months to December 2007, despite an 8.2% rise to $86m in production revenue.

Pipeline leaks in Nigeria mean Ghanaians are still waiting for first gas from the West African Gas Pipeline, which had been promised for Christmas.

Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has shortlisted two Chinese companies for the 300MW Morupule power plant expansion, badly needed to reduce the country’s dependence on imports from South Africa. Minerals, Energy and Water Resources Minister Ponatshego Kedikilwe said the government was also reviewing several proposals from independent power producers. The Morupule expansion should come on stream in 2011. Speaking at a briefing for business representatives on the power crisis, Kedikilwe said BPC had entered into a barter arrangement with a power station in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, for BPC to supply coal in return for power.

The Nigeria-based Africa Finance Corporation plans to set up a 12MW heavy fuel oil power plant in Bissau, as part of a project to deploy emergency power and rehabilitate the transmission and distribution network (AE 132/22)

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Markets are warming to coal and other investments that can contribute to resolving southern Africa’s power crisis.

South Africa’s biggest engineering and construction group was widely expected to present strong H2 2007 results to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 27 February, with diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) expected to show an increase of 50%-60% over the 135 cents recorded in H2 2006; full-year HEPS (to 30 June 2008) was also expected to grow by 50%-60%.

Eskom has invited proposals from private investors to develop up to 3,000MW of new power generation capacity by June 2012. The beleaguered utility said that the new capacity was required to help meet growing demand until the commissioning of its Medupi and Bravo coal-fired plants, as well as a planned nuclear reactor, which are expected to enter service between 2013 and 2017 (AE 132/1).

A meeting of West African leaders in Ouagadougou on 18 January has adopted an Emergency Power Supply Security Plan which moves beyond developing national power infrastructure for the West African Power Pool, to building joint, regional assets on a larger scale.

The European Investment Bank is appraising a $75m loan for the second phase of MagIndustries’ Kouilou project, involving the development of a potash solution mining field and the construction of a potash processing plant (AE 124/2).

Itezhi Tezhi Power Corporation (ITPC) invites prequalification applications by 11 March for civil construction works and the supply of hydro-mechanical equipment for the 120MW Itezhi-Tezhi hydropower project on the Kafue River (AE 108/8).

Eskom has issued a request for proposals for a commercial wind power generation facility and associated infrastructure.