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Early years electricity demand at the Magnis Energy Technologies group’s Nachu graphite production plant will be around 24MW, with mining and processing operations expected require some 135,000 MWh/yr.

West Africa’s total installed generation capacity could reach 43GW by 2027 from 31GW at end-2021, according to African Energy Live Data’s latest analysis, with thermal, hydropower and other renewable projects lining up. But many of these capacity additions are planned for Nigeria, where results may be patchy, as it is already hard to dispatch power from existing plants to an inadequate grid.

Privately-held Aqua Power’s power investments focus exclusively on baseload provision and projects with a cost of below $0.10/kWh. Above this level “hard questions need to be asked”, as it implied costs were being subsidised by the utility and, by proxy, taxpayers, executive director Gachao Kiuna told African Energy.

Developer Aqua Power is seeking to use its 45MW gas-to-power plant in Mtwara, Tanzania to supply troubled Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, in an ambitious privately-financed plan that would build a 220km high-voltage transmission line and substation in Palma, writes Marc Howard.

The Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and local developer Ndar Energies said on 22 February that they had signed an agreement to build a 250MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant in Saint Louis, as momentum in the Senegalese gas-to-power (GTP) sector continues.

Eswatini Electricity Company (EEC) has awarded a six-month contract to provide technical services for a feasibility study to build a gas-fired power plant. The combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant is being pushed as an alternative to a coal-fired facility.

Analysis of the latest information on the African Energy Live Data platform shows that over half of the 23.4GW electricity generation capacity expected online by 2027 across southern Africa will come from public procurement rounds, some 12.5GW of it from renewables and hybrid technologies.

South Africa’s political and electricity supply industry (ESI) crisis has entered a new phase, after embattled President Cyril Ramaphosa was compelled to declare a National State of Disaster, as pressure intensifies on ruling African National Congress (ANC) bureaucrats to end the long-enduring energy catastrophe, which has shaved percentage points off growth.

State power utility Eskom says it will require at least 12 months to design and construct temporary flues for Kusile coal power plant’s units I, II and III while waiting to do the main repairs to the broken common chimney shared by the three units.

Gabon Power Company (GPC) reported that a consortium of lenders met in Libreville as part of their appraisal of the 120MW Owendo gas-fired independent power project (IPP).

Analysis of the African Energy Live Data platform shows installed electricity generation capacity in East Africa is set to be boosted by nearly 15GW, as mega-hydroelectric projects finally come to fruition and renewables gain pace over the next five years. The project pipeline could grow even more quickly if the ambitious goals set out by Kenya and other governments are achieved.

Karmol, the joint venture between Turkey’s Karpower and Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines has secured finance of up to $71m for a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) that will supply Karpower’s floating power plant in Senegal.

Aggreko has been awarded a contract by Electricité de France subsidiary EDF La Réunion to help support conversion of the coal-fired Bois-Rouge power plant on Réunion island to 100% biomass. Aggreko said the conversion would lower direct emissions by 84% compared to the plant’s current operating levels.

Sonelgaz’s decade-old programme to install a new generation of gas-fired power plants with turbines supplied by GE is limping towards the finish line, but the authorities continue to postpone the dates for final commissioning.

Although considered anachronistic by energy transition advocates, on-grid liquid fuel-fired power plants are predicted to still comprise 22GW of the continent’s installed capacity by 2027, according to the latest analysis from African Energy Live Data. This reflects the enduring appeal of flexible, low-capital-cost generation, particularly in markets where renewable or gas capacity has not yet been developed at scale – and it doesn’t include the gigawatts of electricity from the smaller diesel generators that still play such a major role in economies like Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo.