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Botswana Power Corp is seeking independent power producers to build two 50 MW solar parks. The projects are intended to reduce the nation’s dependence on power imports from troubled South African utility Eskom.
State-owned electric utility Botswana…
Energy of Cameroon wants to build two solar parks to improve power supply in the country’s northern regions. The projects will be developed by a consortium led by Norwegian solar company Scatec.
Cameroon power utility Energy of Cameroon S.A. (Eneo…
AFTER months of a crippling power cuts that had seen domestic and industrial consumers going for 18hrs a day without power, State power supplier Zesa has announced it will be downgrading from stage two to stage one shedding.
Zesa according to…
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to Upepo Energy Zambia Limited, a Zambian energy solutions company, to fund a feasibility study for a 150MW wind, solar and energy storage hybrid power plant project in northern Zambia…
The 40MW Mocuba solar power plant in Mozambique was officially inaugurated this month by Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi.
The plant is located close to the city of Mocuba in the Zambézia Province and will deliver 79GWh per year of much-needed…
Mutoko community is experiencing less hours of load shedding after a local Independent Power Producer, Nyangani Renewable Energy (NRE) started pumping its solar power into the national grid.
NRE is the first solar scheme to be commissioned and to…
The 14MW Kikagati hydropower station being built on the border between Uganda and Tanzania has reached financial close, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) announced.
This milestone means the first tranche of debt funding has been released…
Renewable energy provider SOLA Group has secured US $26m to construct industrial and commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities in South Africa. The company aims to build 40MW of solar PV projects using the funds without capital expenditure (…
Ethiopia is currently trying to set up a methodology for the calculation of electricity tariffs for mini-grid systems. Should the government’s work come to fruition, it can provide much-needed certainty to mini-grid investors.
Africa’s off-grid…