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Former energy minister Samuel Sarr has been detained by Dakar gendarmerie, following allegations by shareholders of embezzlement at his West African Energy power project. The shock development raises further questions about energy deals made during the 2012-24 Macky Sall administration, writes Waly Dione Faye.

Senegal
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African Energy understands that an audit by international accounting firm Mazars of the independent power producer (IPP) West African Energy (WAE) has discovered that former energy minister and Sénélec chief executive Samuel Sarr had invoiced another IPP developer, Ndar Energy, for CFA5bn ($7.6m).

Senegal
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A Gridworks-Eranove-AEE Power consortium, developer of three metro-grid solar PV projects for cities in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, has selected the African Development Bank as lead arranger. An initial funding round for $145m is expected to conclude within 18 months.

DR Congo
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Sound Energy has completed the sale of its Sound Energy Morocco East subsidiary to Casablanca-based Managem. The London AIM-listed company will receive up to $45m for stakes in the Tendrara, Grand Tendrara and Anoual licence areas, but will still retain minority interests in all three areas.

Morocco
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CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) has raised an initial $140m tranche of senior debt from South Africa’s Standard Bank to fund commercial and industrial (C&I) power projects fuelled by renewable energy (RE) across Africa.

Kenya | Sierra Leone | Madagascar | Zimbabwe | South Africa
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Construction has started at data company Teraco’s 120MWp solar PV independent power producer (IPP) project in Free State province. Power from the plant will be wheeled across the Eskom grid to Teraco’s own sites across South Africa.

South Africa
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New York and London-listed Vaalco Energy has signed a contract with an affiliate of Borr Drilling to drill several development wells and appraisal/exploration wells, as part of a planned offshore programme in Gabon.

Gabon
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The federal government of Somalia has requested bids for a 10MWp solar PV plant with 20MWh of storage capacity, which would be the country’s first utility-scale renewable energy plant. Sited in the Puntland capital of Garowe, the plant is part of a World Bank Group-funded programme to boost generation and create a new sub-transmission network.

Somalia
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Some 330MW of new, small-scale renewable capacity is expected to be funded by Camco’s Repp 2 blended finance fund. Prospective projects span on- and off-grid solar, hydroelectric and wind power.

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KTDA is seeking EPC contractors for its greenfield 2.8MW Taunet run-of-river project. The tender also includes lots for the supply of associated transmission works and electromechanical equipment.

Kenya
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Zimbabwe and Zambia say work has started to update feasibility studies on the $5bn Batoka Gorge hydroelectric power (HEP) scheme on the Zambezi River. Planned since 1972, initial studies on the scheme were carried out in the 1990s, with financial support from the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Zambia | Zimbabwe
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Chinese IPPs and investors are backing 2.5GW of new coal and solar projects that Zimbabwean authorities claim will end load shedding by 2025 – and end the need for power imports by 2026. However, Harare has a history of announcing megaprojects that do not materialise and, even if these schemes do go ahead, questions remain over whether the grid will be able to handle the additional power, writes Tonderayi Mukeredzi.

Zimbabwe
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A design contract for the Oxbow hydroelectric power plant has jump-started work on the power development of the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).

Lesotho
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The issue leads with a series of articles on Zambia, where prolonged drought has profoundly impacted hydroelectric power output. The government is enacting reforms to mitigate the crisis, most significantly increasing tariffs in October on an emergency basis – a move which could pave the way for permanent cost-reflective tariffs. Developers are also advancing a solar PV pipeline that would see installed capacity increase tenfold by 2028. Coverage includes a revised Zambia power map, interactive power data charts, plus articles focused on the much delayed ZTK power interconnector and C&I news. African Energy also examines the latest developments in Egypt's programme of giga-scale renewables projects.  Two new renewable energy deals, with an aggregate 1.2GW/720MWh capacity, are part of an “accelerated renewable energy initiative”, while early-stage agreements for a cumulative 5.2GW of wind and solar capacity were also signed in November. Power coverage also includes project updates from South Africa and Zimbabwe. Oil and gas coverage leads with  Côte d’Ivoire. Eni has acquired exploration licences for four bocks that adjoin Block CI-205, where Eni and its partner Petroci Holding announced the Calao discovery in March – CdI’s second-largest ever find. African Energy also examines news that the Libyan government is about to claim back more than $60bn of until now unknown assets, which investigators say were secretly invested in United States Treasury bonds by the former Qadhafi regime. The African Energy View focuses on Senegal, where the ruling ‘Duo Diomaye/Sonko’ seems to hold all the cards needed to at least try to implement their ambitious Project Senegal 2050 agenda, after their Pastef party won some 130 of the 165 National Assembly seats in a much-anticipated mid-November legislative election.  

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Nigerian National Petroleum Company’s old Port Harcourt refinery is once again producing petrol, diesel and other products, as the veteran facility’s long-awaited rehabilitation process nears completion. Work continues on NNPC’s three other refineries, while the rival Dangote refinery continues to ramp up its operations.

Nigeria