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Issue 467 - 02 September 2022

Guinea: Norgold commissions 33MW mine unit

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Norgold Group has commissioned a 33MW heavy fuel oil (HFO) power plant at its Lefa gold mine project in Guinea. The $30m project will cut the mine’s fuel consumption electricity production by 15% and engine oil by 30% and result in a 17,000-ton reduction in annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Guinea
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The Ministry of Finance on 19 August invited investors to submit expressions of interest (EoIs) for the acquisition of up to 100% interest in eight state-owned enterprises (SOE) operating in the sugar industry.

Ethiopia
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The West African Transco CLSG transmission network is working to build a second 243MW line, begin energy trade with indebted Liberia and integrate C&I customers and renewable energy sources into the sub-regional network that covers Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Sierra Leone | Guinea | Liberia | Côte d'Ivoire
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The global take-off of corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) is driving an evolution in contracts across the supply chain as companies push to achieve environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets, writes Dan Marks.

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Finland’s Wärtsilä announced on 16 August that it would install an 18MW extension to the 36MW heavy fuel oil (HFO)-fired Sabodala power plant to supply the Sabodala-Massawa gold mining complex.

Senegal
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The Anglican Diocese of Central Zimbabwe has installed a 157kWp solar PV plant and 300kWh battery storage system at St Patrick’s High School in Gweru, Midlands province. The plant is the first phase of a proposed 5MW solar PV project that will meet the school’s electricity needs, with excess electricity sold to the national grid via a net metering scheme.

Zimbabwe
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Canadian mining firm Global Atomic has signed an agreement with Enernet Global to build a hybrid power plant at the Dasa uranium project in Niger. The plant will be built by Enernet under a build-own-operate model.

Niger
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Among the most eye-catching parts of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech on 25 July was a commitment to remove the threshold above which a generation licence is required. African Energy takes a look at the implications of the announcement.

South Africa
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Africa GreenCo has announced its intention to procure an additional 80MW of renewable power from Zambia and up to 500MW of renewable energy from other Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) countries, as it accelerates its plans for regional development.

Zambia
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An upgraded solar PV plant for Gold Fields’ South Deep Mine in South Africa is on schedule to be commissioned during Q3 2022, after construction of the ZAR715m ($42.4m) plant started in Q3 2021

South Africa
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Vivo Energy has completed the Nampala mine solar and battery plant project in Mali for Robex Resources and has signed an agreement for work at the Kiniéro goal mine in Guinea, operated by Sycamore Mining, which Robex is taking over.

Guinea | Mali
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An African Development Bank-backed emergency power project has concluded with the delivery of a 175MVA transformer to the vital Sherwood substation, marking another step in efforts to upgrade infrastructure in the beleaguered economy – and providing a link to Chinese company Dinson’s huge steel plant development at Manhize.

Zimbabwe
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The management of Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has returned to national hands, following the end of the five-year Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC-Liberia) programme, which had been in charge of the state utility’s management since 2018.

Liberia
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InnoSun Energy will develop a 5MW solar plant at the Trekkopje site north-east of Swakopmund, to supply power to Orano Mining Namibia’s Erongo desalination plant.

Namibia
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South32’s Hillside Aluminium and renewables provider Solana Energy have partnered to develop solar PV projects to add 2-2.5MW of electricity to the grid in Richards Bay.

South Africa