Africa

French energy giant TotalEnergies has actually won new contracts in Libya that include the development of a 500MW solar PV project, although it will certainly additionally see the company put US$ 2 billion right into crude oil manufacturing and buy gas removal.

French energy vendor will have a 40% equity share in the CSP plant as well as a 46% share in O&M company

South Africa's most recent renewables procurement window, the Renewable Energy IPP Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), has actually awarded solar independent power producers (IPPs) 1GW out of a total of 2.6 GW of ability.

Scatec ASA (OSL: SCATC) revealed it has won preferred bidder status on 273 MW of solar projects in the fifth round of South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).

Off-grid, pay-as-you go solar company BBOXX has expanded into Nigeria, the company's biggest market to date, with the aim of supplying clean energy accessibility to 20 million people over the following years.

South African utility Eskom has actually authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with mining business Exxaro as well as Seriti Resources to help decarbonise their procedures by releasing solar PV.

Egyptian power company TAQA Arabia has actually put into procedure a 6-MWp private-to-private solar park in the north of the African country that will provide green power to neighborhood dairy products company Dina Farms under a 25-year power purchase contract (PPA).

EUR100m Mega Solar-Storage project will certainly be located at the Edwaleni power plant in Eswatini

A tie-up of Pele Green Energy and EDF Renewables South Africa will certainly construct a 100-MW solar park for South African mining titan Anglo American Platinum (JSE: AMS), the latter claimed on Wednesday.

Norwegian green power producer Scatec ASA (OSL: SCATC) has been forced to reschedule building of its Kenhardt 540-MW solar-plus-storage project in South Africa because of a hold-up in the government authorization process, and revoke projects in Brazil as well as Ukraine.

British company Xlinks is developing a 10.5 GW solar-plus-wind project, incorporated with a battery storage center, in Morocco's Guelmim Oued Noun area. Of the created quantity, 3.6 GW renewable energy will be supplied to the UK via the globe's longest subsea cables.

African-focused energy firm Chariot Ltd (LON: CHAR) and also Mauritania's Ministry of Petroleum, Mines as well as Energy have actually authorized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a green hydrogen project of approximately 10 GW in the northwestern African country, the parties revealed on Monday.

A 10.5 GW solar-plus-wind project is under advancement in Morocco's Guelmim Oued Noun region, with 3.6 GW of this to be exported to Great Britain.

The government of Niger has released a Request for Qualification (RfQ) as part of a tender for the building and construction of a 50-MW solar park.

Grande Cote Operations (GCO), a subsidiary of mining and metallurgy group Eramet SA (EPA: ERA), has actually acquired a business to develop a 13-MW solar energy plant with an 8-MW battery energy storage space component in Senegal.