Togo

The Tokoin Airport, also known as Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport, in the Togolese capital Lomé, has put out a tender for a solar PV power plant. Deadline 8 October 2021.

EDFI ElectriFI has invested a total of $2 million split (under the Benin Country Window funded by the European Union) for $600,000 into equity alongside Gaia Impact Fund and for $1.4 million into convertible notes together with Triodos Investment Management.

Pan-African infrastructure developer Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP), working in partnership with the Republic of Togo’s government, has issued a call for expressions of interest for a large-scale solar-plus-storage project.

AMEU Power has announced the official commissioning of a 50MW solar PV plant in Blitta, Togo, marking the country’s first utility- scale renewable energy project developed by an Independent Power Producer (IPP).

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.

The 2021 edition of REN21’s Renewables in Cities Global Status Report shows the number of cities who have enforced partial or complete bans on fossil fuel jumped five-fold during 2020.

Integrated electricity company EDF has become a shareholder in next-generation utility Bboxx Kenya.

Supplied by solar irrigation provider SunCulture, the Bboxx EDF Togo initiative will be deploying water pumps and arranging financing for customers.

Siemens Energy has delivered a SGT-800 gas turbine to the site of Kékéli Efficient Power to boost power supply in Togo.

Designed for customers who are at the beginning of the energy ladder, a new solar product has been developed to power rural households and micro-businesses.