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Zimbabwean agro-industrial company Nhimbe Fresh has announced the completion of work on its 1.9MW solar PV project to supply its estates in Marondera.

Kibo Energy has entered into a ten-year take-or-pay conditional power purchase agreement (PPA) with an unnamed industrial business park developer in Gauteng province. Dublin-registered Kibo announced on 14 February that the PPA was for a 2.7MW plastic-to-syngas plant.

The amount of electricity that households and industrial customers can feed into Zimbabwe’s national grid through net metering has been increased from 100kW to 5MW, following the gazetting on 11 March of amendments to the Electricity (Net Metering) Regulations of 2018.

Daystar Power Energy Solutions is installing a 350kwp solar project at Lagos Business School. The project is being financed through the Sustainable use of Natural Resources and Energy Finance (Sunref), an initiative funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

An upgraded solar PV plant for Gold Fields’ South Deep Mine in South Africa is on schedule to be commissioned during Q3 2022, after construction of the ZAR715m ($42.4m) plant started in Q3 2021

Africa GreenCo has announced its intention to procure an additional 80MW of renewable power from Zambia and up to 500MW of renewable energy from other Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) countries, as it accelerates its plans for regional development.

Among the most eye-catching parts of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech on 25 July was a commitment to remove the threshold above which a generation licence is required. African Energy takes a look at the implications of the announcement.

Norgold Group has commissioned a 33MW heavy fuel oil (HFO) power plant at its Lefa gold mine project in Guinea. The $30m project will cut the mine’s fuel consumption electricity production by 15% and engine oil by 30% and result in a 17,000-ton reduction in annual greenhouse gas emissions.

The planned merger of Nigeria’s Starsight Energy and South Africa’s SolarAfrica reflects the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector’s continued rise, driven by the persistence of unreliable and expensive grid power in many African markets. Solar photovoltaic (PV) generation is rapidly growing as a source for C&I, according to trends identified by African Energy Live Data.

Nigeria’s Starsight Energy and South Africa’s SolarAfrica have announced plans to merge in a deal which, if approved by regulators, will join two of Africa’s largest commercial and industrial (C&I) renewable power developers into a pan-continental player with a portfolio of over 220MW of operated and signed generation capacity.

Solar PV plants supplying São Tomé International Airport and Príncipe Airport are expected to enter commercial operations later this year, Portuguese project developer Cleanwatts told African Energy Live Data in mid-January.

Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) is aiming to take advantage of the improved operating environment since President Hakainde Hichilema took office in August 2021 to meet growing power demand from mining sector.

Energy leasing firm Solarise Africa (Solarise) has secured debt finance from a group of investors led by the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI), which it will use to grow its commercial and industrial (C&I) business in Africa.

Distributed Power Africa’s has signed a 25-year power lease agreement with Varun Beverages for a rooftop solar PV facility at the soft drinks manufacturer’s plant in Harare. Zimbabwe has emerged as a significant C&I market, reflecting the extent to which recurrent power blackouts are curtailing economic output, prompting companies and individuals to invest in solar energy.

Commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company Sustainable Power Solutions Investments on 23 August announced a $22m investment from parent company CDC Group’s Gridworks and $18m from South African investment company New GX Capital. The transaction will make Gridworks the majority shareholder in SPS.