GE Vernova’s Gas Power business, Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE), and Nareva, a Moroccan company specialised in the development and operation of IPPs, have signed an MOU to collaborate on a feasibility study to use green hydrogen to decarbonise ONEE’s Laâyoune Power Plant, which is powered by three GE Vernova 6B gas turbines.
Mauritania and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have signed financing agreements for two energy sector projects in Mauritania worth $289.5 million.
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has reduced the amount of water allocated for power generation at the Kariba Dam by 47 per cent to 16 billion cubic metres (BCM), down from 30 BCM.
Sungrow Power and EDF Renewables have signed an agreement to provide 264 MWh liquid-cooled energy storage systems and MV transformers for the Umoyilanga project in South Africa. The project is South Africa’s first wind-solar-storage integrated virtual power plant (VPP).
South Africa has launched three bidding rounds for 7615 MW of new power generation from renewable energy, natural gas, and battery storage, part of efforts to overcome power outages crippling the country’s economic output.
Hussain Al Nowais, Chairman of Amea Power, has announced at the Cop28 climate conference that Amea Power has signed a new agreement to develop wind power in Ethiopia.
A dozen hydropower plants across Africa could receive $1 billion from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to upgrade equipment and boost power generation and potentially speed up the transition from fossil fuels.
Ethiopia has announced it will double its supply of hydropower to Kenya following the onset of El Nino rains in Eastern Africa, which has replenished reservoir levels.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), Kenya’s largest power producer, has announced a plan to generate more electricity from geothermal power plants in the face of low water inflows being experienced at the hydropower stations, the result of low rainfall in the country.
South Africa is intensifying efforts to address its energy deficit by accelerating plans for 3 GW of gas-fired power generation.