Transmission and Distribution
Kenya: Contractors invited to bid for UPS and battery chargers installment
The Kenya Power & Lighting Company intends to upgrade UPS and battery chargers for National Control Centre and Rabai Control Centre. A pre-bid meeting will be on 10 June 2020.
Smart Technologies
Ed’s note: Without technology, utilities will fail during- and post-COVID-19
Amid the 2020 global socio-economic upheaval, steady movement can be seen in the power and energy markets where utilities have embraced technology.
Event News
“Mini-grids can electrify thousands of health centres in sub-Saharan Africa”
AMDA's CEO explains why mini-grid companies are "like the Amazons and Teslas of the energy sector", figuring out how to create 600-million new customers.
Renewable energy
Off-grid solar industry reflects on gains before COVID-19
Off-grid solar solutions are critical for the welfare of poor and rural households in East Africa, West Africa and Southern Asia, underlines a new report issued by GOGLA.
Renewable energy
Op-Ed: Challenges faced by early-stage clean energy companies
Like many other sectors, early stage clean energy companies are heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of governments to it.
Transmission and Distribution
“City of darkness” no longer – AfDB supported electricity project lights...
The African Development Bank's $38 million Juba Power Distribution System Rehabilitation and Expansion Project is almost completed according to a release by...
Finance and Policy
Madagascar: Sahofika hydropower BOOT scheme to get 4 million Euro loan
The Sahofika hydropower project entails the construction of a 205MW hydroelectric power plant on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer basis.
Business and markets
Nigeria’s minister of power sets bar high for TCN’s new management
With barely a day having passed since sacking outgoing Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) managing director Usman Mohammed, minister of power Sale Mamman met with the new managing director Sula Abdulaziz and his management team this week.
Generation
Djibouti: Geothermal project to boost green energy production capacity
Additional funding of $3.22m for the geothermal exploitation project in the Lake Assal region of Djibouti, will increase the country's green energy production capacity.
Transmission and Distribution
Tanzania records highest percentage in access to electricity
Energy Minister Dr Medard Kalemani has announced that Tanzania has recorded its highest percentage in access to electricity so far with 84.6% in 2020.
