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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Norwegian development agency Norfund and Norway’s largest pension fund KLP have invested $40m of equity in CrossBoundary Energy to expand its portfolio of renewable projects, paving the way for a debt-raising round in 2023.

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.

With over 7.4GW of engine capacity installed across 45 countries, Helsinki-headquartered Wärtsilä reports progress on its own co-developed power projects in four sub-Saharan markets – Nigeria, Gabon, Mozambique and Malawi – as well as for a range of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work for gas-to-power (GTP) schemes.

Daystar Power Energy Solutions is installing a 350kwp solar project at Lagos Business School. The project is being financed through the Sustainable use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (Sunref), an initiative funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

Bushveld Energy and South African investment firm Nesa Investment Holding have signed a shareholding agreement for a 3.5MW solar PV system and 1MW/4MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system.

Finland’s Wärtsilä has announced a five-year performance-based service agreement for a 20MW power plant combined with a 40MW plant extension at a gold mine in Africa. The Helsinki-headquartered firm did not name the mine, but industry sources told African Energy it is the open-pit Tasiast gold mine.

Construction of the Lephalale solar PV plant that will power Exxaro Resources’ Grootegeluk coal mine in Limpopo province is scheduled to start in early 2023, following approval of the project by National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).

South Africa’s SolarAfrica has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply Vantage Data Centers’ new site in Johannesburg with 87MW of solar power. The contract will see power wheeled over the grid from a site in the Northern Cape, with the aim of helping Vantage and its clients meet their net zero requirements.

Natixis Investment Managers affiliate Mirova has acquired off-grid renewables debt specialist SunFunder, as part of a plan to build up its African portfolio.

South Africa’s transmission shortfalls are having ramifications across the value chain. Sola Group chief executive Dominic Wills told African Energy that access to limited substation space was becoming problematic across South Africa, not just in the Northern Cape.