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The developers of the 700MW Zungeru hydroelectric plant in Niger State said in late August they might not be able to complete the estimated $1.3bn project by the existing December 2019 delivery date, and now expected commissioning in 2020. China National Electric Engineering Company-Sinohydro Consortium deputy project manager Xiao Nie said the project’s first unit was 47% complete. Delays were due to a shortage of personnel, he said. The project is funded by a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China with Nigerian government counterpart funding.

Nigeria
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Political pressure to avoid a repeat of the power cuts that preceded the overthrow of president Mohammed Morsi’s administration in July 2013 and which continued during the 2014 summer peak load period is driving forward energy sector policy, with a heavy roster of emergency thermal generation projects lining up to fill the capacity gap. Energy sector sources in Cairo tell of how President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called one of his now-famous and, for Egypt, unusual, 7am cabinet meetings last year at which he told electricity minister Mohamed Shaker to ensure that no more blackouts occurred during summer 2015 or later.

Egypt
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Tunisia’s Ministry of Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises has awarded licences to four onshore projects totalling 120MW under its wind energy procurement programme. The projects represent a combined investment of TND400m ($134.5m), according to Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP). The successful bidders will build wind farms of 30MW each.

Tunisia
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UK-based Azuri Technologies and First Bank of Nigeria Ltd announced a partnership on 7 February to expand access to electricity in Nigeria. The agreement will see Azuri’s solar home system packages co-branded and co-marketed by FirstBank. Customers will be able to use First Bank’s Firstmonie agent network and mobile payment platform to pay for their solar systems.

Nigeria
Issue 337 - 22 December 2016

Moroccan projects stack up

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In the wake of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of the Parties (COP22) meeting in Marrakech, even more projects have been announced in the kingdom. Among recent moves: Meknès bioelectric plant – Olea Green-Food Meknès is intended to exploit olive waste under a public-private partnership in the agricultural region. Partners include the local LCM-Aïcha’s OleaFood, Casablanca-based Green of Africa and two Suez group subsidiaries in a biomass unit that will generate 15MW-20MW.

Morocco
Issue 270 - 30 January 2014

ReneSola South Africa launched

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Solar photovoltaic products manufacturer ReneSola Ltd announced on 23 January the launch of ReneSola South Africa. The company will operate a sales and marketing office in Cape Town. “South Africa has shown tremendous potential for utility scale, commercial and residential solar PV projects,” said ReneSola South Africa general manager Qasim Abrahams. “We see particular marketing opportunities for ReneSola’s solar modules, inverters, and storage solutions, as well as LED lighting. Furthermore, South Africa is an ideal gateway for expanding ReneSola’s business into emerging markets like Ghana, Rwanda, Namibia, Kenya and others across the continent that are pursuing clean energy solutions to their critical energy needs.”

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The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) is seeking a hydropower engineer to act as project manager for the regional Rusumo Falls project on the Kagera River. The scheme’s projected 80MW output will be shared between Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania, which will establish a special purpose vehicle to oversee implementation and operation.

Rwanda | Tanzania | Burundi
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The Sahambano-Ihosy mini hydropower plant in the southern central province of Sahambano was inaugurated on 8 June in the presence of President Hery Rajaonarimampianina, European Union (EU) ambassador Antonio Sánchez-Benedito and several members of the government. The 347kW station on the Sahambano River in Ihosy district was built by Italy’s Zecca Prefabricatti, with €2m ($2.18m) in financing from the EU. The new plant will supply the town of Sahambano, as well as the neighbouring communes of Ambia and Ankily and several other villages in Ihosy.

Madagascar
Issue 394 - 14 June 2019

Senegal: Battery storage talks

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State power utility Senelec has been holding talks with stakeholders to discuss the procurement of 80MWh of battery storage. Senegal has been rapidly procuring variable renewable power and the 158.7MW Taïba N’Diaye wind project in particular requires more reactive capacity on the grid to be fully dispatched. The project is set to begin commissioning in September with roughly 50MW coming online in October, 50MW in January and 50MW in April 2020.

Senegal
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The wave of gas-fired power plants, several now under construction, remain at the forefront of government plans to improve the dire state of Nigeria’s generation output. But while lack of activity to implement the substantial number of planned solar and wind projects puts into question ambitious targets to increase the level of renewable energy (RE) in the mix, to 10% of total generation by 2017 and 20% by 2020, government commitments to boost hydroelectric power (HEP) generation could yet deliver results. Nigeria has an estimated 17GW of HEP potential.

Nigeria
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation private finance arm is investing up to $100m in Saudi developer Acwa Power, which “will help the company significantly increase the amount of power it generates from renewable sources and meet growing energy demand throughout the Middle East and North Africa [and] the southern cone of Africa”, the IFC said in a statement issued in Riyadh on 7 July. In Morocco, the investment was seen as providing further essential support for fast-growing Acwa Power, the flagship contractor for Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (Masen)’s Ouarzazate solar power complex.

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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.

Sudan | Ethiopia
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Norway’s Scatec Solar announced on 11 April that commercial operations had begun at a 65MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project in the Benban solar complex. A number of plants are already operating at Benban, which is expected to eventually reach 1.5GW, making it the largest solar park in the world. Scatec Solar, KLP Norfund (a co-investment vehicle funded by Norwegian development agency Norfund and mutual insurance company KLP) and the Africa50 infrastructure fund signed 25-year power purchase agreements in April 2017 for six 65MW projects, which are expected to produce 870GWh/yr.

Egypt
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A concession agreement between the Congolese state and Brazilian-owned Construction, Finance & Engineering Congo (CFE Congo) for a 100MW hydropower project at Mbimbi Mayi Munene on the Kasai River in Western Kasai province was published in the official gazette on 1 August. The agreement was signed in Kinshasa on 26 June. The project, which will produce 30MW in a first phase, will supply power to the city of Tshikapa, a centre for alluvial gem mining, as well as the rest of Western Kasai and the neighbouring Bandundu province. The agreement also mentions the possibility of supplying a regional interconnection.

DR Congo
Issue 184 - 17 April 2010

Algae potential

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Africa is seen as one of the world’s best locations for algae, according to Belgian-based