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Power developments in Africa

Compiled by Roger Lilley, Now Media

IPP tender opportunity: Botswana Power New fund to help GHG
emission reduction
Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is inviting bids for the development, financing, construction
and operation of six solar photovoltaic plants. IPPs have until 25 March 2022 to apply. The To achieve Zimbabwe’s commitment to
Botswana authorities have not provided further details on the project, including the total reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
capacity expected. With an installed capacity of 450 MW, Botswana imports an additional 150 by 40% by 2030, the country has set up a
MW from South Africa. National demand is estimated at 550 MW. Botswana recently received a Renewable Energy Fund (REF) to attract
$1 million grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a financing facility managed investment in hydropower, solar and biomass.
by the African Development Bank (AfDB). For more information on the BPC tender, click here. The United Nations Fund for Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) has mobilized
US$10 million and is launching a special fund
Startups have a role to play Energy company expands
of $45 million from several development
in electrifying Nigeria its reach in Mozambique partners. The project will start in April 2022.
It will also increase the country’s installed
At least 13 start-up electricity-access solution TotalEnergies is expanding in Mozambique generation capacity and help meet the
providers are winners of the 2021 Nigeria with the acquisition of BP’s retail network, estimated 2000 MW of demand.
Off-Grid Energy Competition. Organized by wholesale fuel business and logistics assets.
the US African Development Foundation The transaction covers a network of 26
(USADF) and investor All On, the initiative service stations, a portfolio of business Libya’s first renewable
aims to identify and scale innovative customers and 50% in SAMCOL, the energy IPP project gets
solutions to improve access to electricity logistics company previously jointly owned underway
in rural Nigeria. The winners are A1 by TotalEnergies and BP, which operates
Power Technologies, Alabaster Agro-Allied the Matola, Beira and Nacala fuel import The first renewable energy project to be
Industries, Bols N Sels Technologies, CeeSolar terminals. These assets are complementary built by an independent power producer
Energy, Elvees Engineering, Enercity Smart to TotalEnergies’ existing network of 57 (IPP) in Libya, is now entering its full
Grid, First Electric, GreenPower Overseas, service stations and current B2B business. development phase. The project is being
Manamuz Electric, Novel Integrated Services, With this acquisition, TotalEnergies undertaken by AG Energy, an IPP based in
PowerStove Off-Grid Electricity, Sendavis strengthens its position as the leading retailer Dublin, Ireland. The facility, which will have
Nigeria and Uwana Energy. of petroleum products in the country. a capacity of 200 MWp, will be located
in Ghadames, 650 km from the capital
More support for Egypt’s green economy Tripoli. The project will demonstrate the
effectiveness and value of renewable energy
Scatec is preparing to issue a green bond to finance renewable energy in Egypt. The European and could help the authorities attract more
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is expected to provide €130 million if private investment in renewable energy in
approved on 23 February 2022. The proceeds of the green bond will be used to finance Libya. The country currently uses fossil fuels
Scatec’s portfolio of six solar power plants (380 MWp) in the Benban complex. Located in the for electricity generation.
governorate of Aswan, this mosaic of 41 solar photovoltaic plants (1650 MWp) was built by
IPPs like Scatec, which also wants to diversify its sources of energy production in Egypt.
Namibian electricity storage
project to go ahead
Another waste-to-energy Poultry company to get
plant approved solar micro-grid Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the
German development agency, has agreed
A waste-to-energy plant in Zimbabwe Chinese company Sungrow has entered into a €20 million grant with the state-owned
will provide electricity from waste to the an agreement with Egyptian energy company Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower)
people of the town of KweKwe. The plant KarmSolar for the installation of a solar so that it can build a large-scale electricity
will be located on a 50-ha site near the micro-grid with storage to power the Cairo 3A storage system in the Erongo region.
municipality’s wastewater treatment plant Poultry Company facility. Sungrow will provide The state-owned company will focus on
in Dutchman’s Pools. It follows a similar a 2,576 MWp PV inverter and a 1 MW/3,957 connecting the future storage system to
project in the city of Bulawayo which was MWh electricity storage system, and the Namibia’s national power grid from the
approved in April 2021. That project by facility is expected to be operational by May Umburu substation, as well as paying local
UK-based Pragma Leaf Consulting will 2022. The solar PV plant and its storage fees and taxes not covered by the KfW
process 325 tonnes of waste per day, system will allow Cairo 3A Poultry to reduce grant. NamPower’s project aims to stabilize
generating between 78 000 and 110 000 the environmental footprint of its facilities. its grid and, more importantly, provide a
litres of diesel per day, 60 m3 of biogas The company still relies on diesel generators back-up solution in case of failures of existing
and 11,35 MW of electricity. for egg, chicken and feed production. generation facilities.

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