Chris Bale, from the Nigerian conglomerate Honeywell Group, has announced that the group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GE for the construction of a power generation facility.
Despite claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that it has surplus gas for power generation, the operations of four power stations across Nigeria have been hampered by insufficient gas supply from the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of NNPC.
UK-based Blue Energy has announced that it will build Africa’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, the 155 MW Nzema project in Ghana.
Japanese conglomerates Hitachi and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have agreed to form a joint venture that will integrate their thermal power generation businesses.
The 340 MW Kpone Independent Power Project at Kpone in Ghana, valued at $600 million, has commenced.
The South Korean company Daewoo has signed a construction agreement with the Kenyan Electricity Generating Company to build a $1.3 billion coal-fired power station.
Namibian Minister of Mines and Energy, Isak Katali, has said that the poor state of power generation in Southern Africa means construction of a nuclear power station in Namibia is an open possibility.
The Nigerian Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has received technical and financial proposals from 25 potential investors for the country’s four thermal and two hydro generation power stations, according to a statement from spokesman of the BPE, Chukwuma Nwoko.