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The African Development Bank Group has approved a soft African Development Fund loan of $78.13m to finance the Mbarara-Nkenda and Tororo-Lira power transmission lines project.

Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has awarded contracts for an interconnection with Sudan. Bosnia’s Energoinvest will build the 230kV line, while Iran’s Sunir will reinforce existing substations in northern Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has awarded contracts for an interconnection with Sudan. Bosnia’s Energoinvest will build the 230kV line, while Iran’s Sunir will reinforce existing substations in northern Ethiopia. The 297km line will run from Bahir Dar to Gondar and Shehedi, then to the Sudanese border.

Volta River Authority (VRA) has awarded two contracts worth nearly $10m to Spain’s Montreal Montajey y Realizaciones for substation and transmission work for the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) coastal transmission backbone project.

Mozambique’s long-discussed transmission backbone scheme is another major southern African scheme to gain impetus from the region’s electricity supply crisis, writes Kevin Godier.

One signal that Eskom’s plans to source power are not yet set in stone comes from analysis of its transmission options, with plans evolving for a high capacity EHV transmission system to form a backbone of high load transmission across South Africa – the so-called KV 765 super grid. SA now has only three 765kV lines (the majority of the grid is 400kV) but according to

Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), which operates the Cahora Bassa dam, is planning to increase output to 2,925MW from 2,075MW to meet local and regional demand (AE 136/24). Within the next three months, a study will be commissioned to evaluate the dam’s potential to increase output. In theory, the project should be eligible for international funding because of its regional dimension.

The World Bank Group has approved $17.5m in additional financing for the Power Distribution and Rural Electrification project, as part of broad-based support for economic growth through rehabilitation of the electricity distribution network and generation plants.

Construction has begun on a long-awaited transmission line connecting Côte d’Ivoire and its north-eastern neighbour Mali, which forms an important link in the nascent West African Power Pool (AE 105/3).