While the inauguration of the Bumbuna hydropower plant in Sierra Leone has brought a number of immediate benefits to the national economy, the first stage of the project is not enough on its own to supply the energy needs on the...
Nigeria's decision to reserve 30 per cent of its fuel production for domestic use will not affect its supply commitments to the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project, the government has assured investors.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave its approval last week to the possibility of a nuclear power plant in Nigeria to meet the country's growing energy needs. Director-general representative Dr Vincent Nkong-Njock...
GE Oil & Gas and Rockson Engineering Nigeria will collaborate to respectively design and construct eight gas turbines capable of generating up to 200 MW in Kaduna.
The companies were awarded the $230 million (£139...
A Kenya infrastructure bond has drawn $589 million (£355 million) in bids, Bloomberg has reported. The Central Bank of Kenya reported bids for their infrastructure bond sale were twice oversubscribed. Director of monetary...
Kenya will be the point of entry for Chinese energy firm TBEA, which aims to expand its investment in power generation and transmission to East Africa in the next few years. International business co-ordinator Wei Hua was quoted...
South Africa (SA) has received a loan of €40 million (£36.3 million) to be invested by the FirstRand Bank in renewable power projects. Focus will be on industrial cogeneration, but support for individual projects...
The Kenyan government has announced its intention to develop renewable energy from a $2 billion (£1.2 billion) fund set up with the aid of the World Bank, the French Development Agency, the KfW of Germany and African...
Nigeria's energy goals are not set high enough - and the country should look towards regional programmes to achieve the affordability and accessibility its population needs.
This is according to People's Democratic Party elder...
The African Development Bank has warned that the continent's countries must begin upping their infrastructure investment in renewable energy and other projects to cut carbon emissions.
A draft agreement has just been signed between Italy and Tunisia to initiate a study of the potential of renewable sources of energy and their application. The objective is to create an interconnection for electricity between...
Economic development in Africa is impeded mainly by inadequate access to power supplies and the continent is losing two percentage points of growth every year because overall infrastructure is lacking.
A $100 million (£60.1 million) transmission network upgrade in Uganda is expected to lower electricity costs and prepare the power supply system for increased energy generation in the future.
