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Overview. Government has $500m of financing from DFIs for upgrading and expansion of transmission and distribution infrastructure. $8bn-worth of investment needed to meet 2031's forecast demand of 4,700MW. The north is experiencing rapid demand growth of 8-10%/yr mainly due to mining growth and existing infrastructure
GE is supplying four Frame 9E gas turbines to China Machinery & Equipment Company (CMEC) for the 500MW Omotosho Phase 2 power plant in Ondo state.
The African Development Bank’s concessional loans arm is considering a UA93.75m loan and UA58m grant for a project to improve the electricity transmission system
The 300MW high-voltage Caprivi connection between Zambia and Namibia has been inaugurated by the presidents of Namibia, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
The European Investment Bank has agreed several loans for North African power projects, including the Giza North power plant in Egypt, the Sousse power plant in Tunisia, and funding for the Tunisian transmission network.
Office National de l’Electricité (ONE) and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed a Dh660m ($81.2m) loan on 14 October to finance the strengthening of the state utility’s transmission network in the kingdom’s ‘southern provinces’ – largely situated in the disputed Western Sahara.
The World Bank has put up the funds for part of a project to increase power supply to northern Tanzania, where demand from the mining industry is stretching the existing grid to the limit
US ambassador Alfonso Lenhardt on 13 September signed two power transmission contracts awarded under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact signed in 2008 (AE 148/8).
The Luxembourg-based European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced plans to provide up to E100m ($129m) of finance for the 1,300km Centre South (Cesul) transmission backbone system between Tete province and Maputo, which should be operational by 2016.
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
The French Areva group’s supervisory board has agreed to put its Transmission & Distribution division up for sale.
With the Zambian electricity supply industry in a state of flux, Lusaka Stock Exchange-listed Copperbelt Energy Corporation plc (CEC) is planning another growth spurt, building new generating capacity with the estimated $100m Kabompo Gorge hydroelectric power (HEP) project in North-Western Province.
The UK’s HALO Trust is removing land mines along a transmission line running from Maputo to the South African border at Ressano Garcia
The government is hoping to attract $400m of donor finance for a transmission project to improve supply to Dodoma, Arusha, Moshi, Shingida, Shinyanga, Mwanza, Musoma and Tabora in north-west Tanzania.
ABB has won an order worth $53m from Eskom to strengthen the transmission network in the Western Cape region. ABB will design, manufacture, install and commission six 765kV capacitor banks at the Alpha, Beta, Mercury and Perseus substations.
