Azito Energie, a consortium of Ivory Coast’s IPS-WA, the French utility EDF, and ABB, has announced that its Azito Phase IV power plant is now in full commercial operation.
South Africa’s state power utility Eskom has announced that it has increased the hours of daily power cut temporarily, because it lost more generation capacity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cleared Uganda to start building a 2000 MW nuclear power plant.
Botswana has invited bids from IPPs to build a 200 MW solar PV power plant to boost power generation and increase the proportion of renewable energy.
Ghana has ordered its first waste-to-energy power plant at Gyankobaa in Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality in Ashanti.
Eskom of South Africa announced a new plan to procure engineering and maintenance services from OEMs in the coming months to supplement its skills base at its ailing coal-fired power stations.
South African state-owned utility Eskom has said it will reduce scheduled power following an improvement in generation capacity.
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has said that work to rehabilitate the Kariba Dam wall is scheduled to be completed at the end of January.
GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has won a number of recent contracts for its digital power transformers.
Andre de Ruyter, CEO of Eskom of South Africa, said that the utility has an opportunity to emerge from years of crisis by shifting from coal-fired power generation to natural gas and renewables.