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HDF Energy aims to produce electricity from 2024 at its planned green hydrogen plant (GH2) in Swakopmund. The French independent power producer’s (IPP) scoping report – seen as a crucial permit for the project – has been accepted by local authorities, allowing HDF to finalise its environmental and social impact assessment (Esia) report.

State utility Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has invited local and international consultants to conduct a feasibility study for green hydrogen (GH2), ammonia and fertiliser production.

The quartet of public institutions driving Egypt’s green hydrogen (GH2) development have signed eight new memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with international partners in the past month, seven of them in one session on 25 August, bringing to at least 17 the number of projects under consideration. The new participants include UK-based Actis and Globeleq, two of India’s largest renewables developers, Acme Group and ReNew Power, and Gulf-based investors Alcazar Energy, Alfanar Group and K&K Energy, plus Egypt- and US-backed Mediterranean Energy Partners.

Morocco plans to promote a project to develop an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant, to be integrated with the kingdom’s existing vehicle manufacturing industry including Renault and Citroen manufacturing plants.

Bioethanol producer Sunbird Bioenergy is due to start trials in August to blend petroleum with ethanol produced from cassava feedstock, with Indeni Petroleum Refinery as the off-taker.

As presidential and congressional elections approach in Brazil, observers say the potential for a change in leadership is raising the possibility of a return by Brazilian industrial giants to Africa after a difficult period of governance crises and restructuring.

Tunisia’s industry, energy and mines ministry is working on the early stages of a green hydrogen (GH2) scheme called H2vert.TUN with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) and its Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) development agency.

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed is set to claim beefed-up powers under a new authoritarian constitution, via a referendum planned for 25 July. That may allow for progress on long-delayed renewable power projects, but his critics say the president has not prepared the population for some tough measures that are needed to prevent economic collapse, as state budgets are squeezed and unemployment and inflation increase.

The United Kingdom’s Global Otec is to start negotiations with the São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) government on a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the continent’s first ocean thermal energy conversion (Otec) platform.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 5 July that the framework, which sets the agenda for the governments ‘just energy transition’ policy, had been finalised, five months after a public consultation document was published.

Sasol and the Northern Cape’s development body are expected to complete prefeasibility work on a 5GW green hydrogen plant in September, with a full feasibility study to begin soon afterwards.

South Africa’s $8.5bn Just Energy Transition Partnership is starting to take shape, with Eskom committing to decommission more than 20GW of coal by 2035 and promising more than $6.3bn to be invested in transmission upgrades. But there are also concerns about the direction of travel as the government separately considers adding new coal and gas capacity.

European Union Delegation to South Africa head of co-operation Bernard Rey told the recent Enlit Africa event in Cape Town that the EU was heavily committed to supporting the energy transition in Africa, while recognising the need for flexibility.

The Namibian government is continuing to negotiate a contract with its preferred bidder, Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, for the country’s first large green hydrogen (GH2) project.

The Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation (LuxDev) has asked for expressions of interest from consultants to conduct a feasibility study into the production of green hydrogen in Cape Verde.