Africa

Qatar is interested in purchasing renewable energy in Egypt, especially in solar and also wind projects, the president of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) said during a meeting with his equivalent at Egypt's General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI).

The solar training programme will certainly be performed in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. The programme and tripartite cooperation is viewed as a timely opportunity for capacity structure for the Desert to Power effort.

The projects will provide electricity to the Doba Oil Project and also the towns of Moundou as well as Doba in Southern Chad, and also the capital city, N'Djamena. Savannah Energy claimed it looks to fund the renewable projects from a combination of its own inside created cash flows as well as project particular debt.

British energy business Savannah Energy has authorized an agreement with the government of Chad for the growth of as much as 500MW of utility-scale renewables.

UK-based Xlinks plans to build 10.5 GW of wind and also solar in Morocco as well as sell the power in the UK. London-based investment firm Octopus Energy said it signed up with pressures with the project developer, Xlinks, to aid it progress with building.

Building and construction work with a 50-MW solar project created by a Belectric-CCC consortium in eastern Egypt is nearing completion, with commissioning set up for the third quarter of this year.

Off-grid solar professional Sun King has actually increased US$ 260 million in a Series D funding round intended to expand international accessibility to affordable solar power across Africa and also Asia.

The electrolyser facilities in the Suez Canal Economic Zone and also on the Mediterranean could be encompassed up to 4 GW by 2030 to produce 2.3 million tonnes of green ammonia.

Malawi, a landlocked nation in southeastern Africa, is defined by its topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and enormous Lake Malawi. The cost of solar energy there has fallen by more than 3 quarters internationally over the past decade.

French-based independent power producer (IPP), Neoen, has officially commissioned the 41 MWp Metoro solar power plant in Mozambique. Inaugurated in October 2020 by Mozambican Head Of State, H.E. Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, the project will certainly come online in the following few weeks, providing much-needed power to the national grid.

The 6th bidding round of South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has actually opened for interested events.

The African Development Fund, the concessional arm of the African Development Bank Group, has authorized a USD-5.5-million (EUR 5.1 m) technological support give to kick off the Desert to Power project in the eastern part of the Sahel region, specifically in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia as well as Sudan, the bank has actually introduced.

French power major TotalEnergies SE (EPA: TTE) and also power manufacturer General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) have actually gone over the launch of a project for the building and construction of a solar power plant in the North African nation.

Norwegian green power producer Scatec ASA (OSL: SCATC) has actually re-financed the non-recourse debt facilities tied to three running solar farms completing 190 MW it co-owns in South Africa.

The 200 MW solar project is expected to give approximately 40% of Tronox's South African electricity demands. Tronox claims that the project stands for a significant progression to satisfy its emission reduction targets.