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The implementation of the proposed two-month free electricity supply to Nigerians is unlikely to materialise due to the structure of the electricity supply industry in the country. Sunday Oduntan the executive director in charge of research and…
Cameroon plans to construct a 400 kV electricity transmission line from Nachtigal hydroelectric plant to Bafoussam which will eventually connect to the neighboring Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was revealed by Gaston Eloundou Essomba, the…
The health crisis caused by Covid-19 overshadows a natural disaster that has been ongoing since the beginning of 2020 in East Africa. Heavy rains on Lake Victoria have left many families homeless in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The long and trying…
A mini-grid operator, JUMEME, has launched a COVID-19 Relief Programme to support the Tanzanian healthcare centres in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. With this programme, JUMEME will use its local solar-hybrid mini-grids to provide 10…
Zimbabwe’s Rio Energy Ltd., a unit of RioZim Ltd., will build a 2,100 megawatt thermal power plant with China Gezhouba Group Corp in northern Zimbabwe at a projected cost of $3 billion, Rio Energy said Monday. “CGGC will develop the project and…
The government of the Republic of Mauritius is set to construct a solar PV plant of unknown capacity yet at the Agricultural Marketing Board (AMB) located in Moka district in the central plateau of the Indian Ocean Island. This was revealed in a…
Building on nearly two decades of World Bank Group support for Côte d’Ivoire’s energy sector, MIGA has issued guarantees for the Phase 4 expansion of the Azito combined cycle gas-power plant. The expansion will provide an additional 253MW of…
Mozambique's public electricity company, EDM, may be forced to revise downwards this year's target for new connections to the national electricity grid, because of the constraints caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus that causes the Covid-…
Botswana Power Corporation's (BPC) recent increase of electricity tariffs was to ensure that rates are cost reflective. The tariffs, according to BPC marketing and communications manager, Ms Dineo Seleke, were among the lowest in the region and the…