Infrastructure News
AfDB Approves US $348 Million in Funding for Kenya-Ethiopia Electricity Highway
21/09/2012
The Board of the African Development Fund approved on Thursday, September 20, US $348 million in funding for a US $1.26-billion electricity highway project between Kenya and Ethiopia.
Due for commissioning in November 2017,...
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Video: Temperature control company makes headway in Africa
19/09/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News: Provider of temporary power and temperature control services Aggreko Southern and East Africa, opened a new service centre in Walvis Bay, Namibia, last month.
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New Methodology on Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Approved by UN Climate Change Board
19/09/2012
African Development Bank: In its 69th meeting held in Bangkok, September 9-13, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved a new ...
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Building Africa's Green Economy
13/09/2012
Think Africa Press: Africa’s energy demand is forecast to dramatically expand as rapid urbanisation and economic growth push consumption to new heights. Yet the continent is currently plagued by poor power infrastructures and ...
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Nigeria: The Fears, Anxiety Of Sustaining Improvement In Power Supply
13/09/2012
Leadership: If all goes as planned, it is expected that by the first quarter (Q1) of 2013, the privatised generating companies would have been taken over by the new investors and expectedly, the Q2 and Q3 of 2013 the recovery ...
Africa and Denmark Join Forces to Promote Investment in Sustainable Energy
13/09/2012
Justmeans.com: Denmark has a long history with Africa. From the 17th to 19th centuries, the relationship was primarily that of colonizer and colonized, as the small European nation established several trading posts and forts...
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Africa's Chance to Lead
13/09/2012
HydroWorld.com: Stupendous in magnitude, the Grand Inga project envisages 40 GW of hydropower capacity in the Inga valley, some 250 km west of Kinshasa on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Conceiving...
Video: Energy in the Wind - a Moroccan wind farm produces green energy
12/09/2012
Deutsche Welle: As Morocco's economy grows, it needs more and more energy - some ten percent more each year. A new wind farm outside Tangier is now one of the country's biggest and most promising energy providers.
Morocco ...
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Finland to fund energy projects
12/09/2012
The Observer: Now that Uganda has entered the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) with other southern and East African countries, aiming at boosting the use of renewable energies, Ugandans with creative and innovative...
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Cameroon: Lom-Pangar Funds Wholly Mobilised
11/09/2012
AllAfrica.com (Cameroon Tribune): The European Investment Bank last Friday completed the FCFA 238 billion package needed for the project.
The total amount needed to execute the multibillion Lom-Pangar Hydroelectricity Dam at...
Renewables firm secures more capital for projects in SA, Ireland, Chile and Canada
10/09/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News: International renewable-energy company Mainstream Renewable Power – which advanced to the preferred-bidder stage for South African wind and solar projects involving a combined 238 MW of...
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Uganda: Demand for Electricity Up
06/09/2012
AllAfrica.com - Electricity demand has increased sharply a month after the multi-million dollar Bujagali Hydropower Project delivered 250 Mega Watts (MW) to national grid.
Until late July this year, power demand during peak...
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SADC power project on course
06/09/2012
The Botswana Gazette - Five investors have expressed interest in the development of the $223 million power transmission inter-connector project to link Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia (ZiZaBoNa).
According to a...
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Énergies renouvelables : la BAD a investi 800 millions de dollars au Maroc
05/09/2012
Jeune Afrique - Au premier semestre 2012, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a prêté quelques 800 millions de dollars au Maroc pour aider le pays à mener à bien son ambitieux plan d'investissement dans les énergies...
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Vodacom rolls out green base stations in Western Cape, South Africa
04/09/2012
Engineering News
Telecommunications group Vodacom has installed two hybrid base stations in the Vleiland Valley farming community in the Western Cape.
The community, which is situated between two mountains and previously ...
AfDB Approves US $800 Million in Loans to Advance Morocco’s Wind and Solar Ambitions
04/09/2012
African Development Bank
Over the first half of 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been demonstrating its commitment to support the scaling up of renewable energy in Africa with the approval of US $800 million in...
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Egypt: EGP 400 Million Loan From France to Renovate Power Network
03/09/2012
AllAfrica.com
Minister of Electricity and Energy Eng. Mahmoud Balbaa said that a plan was prepared to implement a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation and renovation of the national network for the transmission of ...
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Development plan calls for more gas, warns on coal export restrictions
15/08/2012
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly.com
South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030 calls for efforts to be made to substitute coal with gas in the country’s energy mix, including developing shale gas resources “provided the...
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African Energy Resources defines Sese thermal coal Measured Resource, at odds with valuation
15/08/2012
Proactive Investors Australia
African Energy Resources (ASX: AFR) has defined an initial Measured Resource for its Sese Thermal Coal Project in Botswana of 651 million tonnes following resource modelling by the company’s...
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Nigeria: Oben power plant closed for upgrade
13/08/2012
The Oben gas power plant will be shut down intermittently for two weeks in order to complete a scheduled upgrade operation, owner Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited said to Nigerian newspaper This Day.
In a statement...
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