Generation
West Africa: $465 million approved for regional electricity access
Countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will expand access to grid electricity to over one million people, enhance power system stability for another 3.5 million people, and increase renewable energy integration in the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP).
Renewable energy
Winch Energy seeks $2.1 million to fund renewable energy technology
Winch Energy, an off-grid utilities provider, is looking to raise up to $2.1 million through a crowdfunding campaign to accelerate the installation of renewable energy technology in Sierra Leone and Uganda.
Business and markets
Latest G7 dialogue pegs reliable energy to inclusive economic growth
“It is important that the right of developing economies to policy space and sufficient time to achieve a just transition be respected,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said at the G7 Leaders' Summit.
Renewable energy
Western Cape opens RFI for its Municipal Energy Resilience project
Request for Information, open to private and public organisations, published by the Western Cape Government for renewable energy projects that will develop into new generation capacity in the region.
Transmission and Distribution
$570 million power transmission line to link four west African countries
The governments of Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso and the Niger Republic have put together the final touches to the execution of a planned $570 million transmission line which runs across the four countries.
Renewable energy
SAWEA welcomes threshold increase and moves to an open electricity market
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA), has welcomed the announcement by President Ramaphosa to lift the threshold for companies to produce their own electricity without a licence to 100MW.
Generation
Latest growth figures on global hydropower capacity, not clean-cut
The IHA's 2021 status report shows that installed global hydropower capacity rose by 1.6% to 1,330GW over the past year but is falling short.
Generation
President Ramaphosa’s self-generation announcement “bold but necessary”
“The country is in the throes of an energy crisis and the importance of the discussions at Enlit Africa this week have been punctuated by loadshedding.”
Generation
South Africa: Embedded generation threshold to increase to 100MW
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa today announced the increase of the embedded generation threshold from 1MW to 100MW.
Event News
Hydrogen and LPG as alternative resources as net zero deadlines approach
"Africa could become a net exporter of energy, particularly in terms of green hydrogen development".
