AFDB Plans $200 Million Boost to Nigeria’s Power Risk Guarantees Bloomberg The African Development Bank is in talks with Nigerian officials to boost the value of its partial-risk guarantee for…

Botswana suffers outages Financial Mail ESKOM is trying to bring Kusile and Medupi - its two 4800MW power stat ions that are under construction - on stream in SA at the same time as the Botswana…

As It's Light Out in the West, Africa Needs Help to Switch On The Huffington Post On Saturday, 29th of March, many westerners switched off their lights to celebrate Earth Hour. The Big Ben, Times…

AfDB to finance water, energy and SME projects in Egypt MSME News African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it will finance projects in the water, irrigation, energy and small and medium scale…

The trillion-dollar gap. How to get more of the world’s savings to pay for new roads, airports and electricity The Economist If you have been to New York’s La Guardia airport recently, taken a…

Nigeria Requires $7.7bn To Improve Power Supply - TCN Ventures Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), a business unit under the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), says it would need $7.7…

$870m financing agreements signed for biggest clean energy project in Africa BiztechAfrica The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (http://ltwp.co.ke) meant to add an existing 300MW of reliable, low…

Besoins énergétiques : l´Afrique sur la bonne route ? L'Energie d'Avancer L´économie africaine a longtemps suivi le sentier de la dépendance. Tracé par les anciennes puissances coloniales et…

Green energy for Africa Environmental Research Web The International Renewable Energy Agency says that Africa has the potential and the ability to utilise its renewable resources to fuel the…