Starsight Energy Expands into East Africa
Starsight Energy is delighted to announce its expansion into East Africa via the acquisition of a 50% stake in the East African operations of Premier Solar Group, a market-leading Commercial … Read More
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Afentra Offers New Opportunities for the Energy Transition in Africa
Afentra plc, the upstream operator focused on opportunities in Africa, has been launched with a clear mandate to look at opportunities to invest in the energy transition in Africa. Spearheaded … Read More
Renewables supplied only a third of Africa’s electricity demand growth
An analysis of global electricity revealed that wind and solar showed resilient growth in 2020 despite the pandemic, forcing a record fall in global coal power. The Global Electricity Review … Read More
Energy Storage to Enable the Continued Growth of Renewables in Kenya
By Michael Ball, Project Development Manager for Africa and Europe, Wärtsilä According to the government’s power development plans, the next decade will see many new solar PV and wind power … Read More
African Energy Developments Demand Sustained Investment with New Projects in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda & Senegal
In the past twelve months, the African energy sector has seen several encouraging developments – in the form of both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and strategic partnerships – that have … Read More
Chariot Oil & Gas Ventures into Renewable & Hybrid Power
Chariot has announced that it has signed share purchase agreements for the acquisition of the business of Africa Energy Management Platform for consideration of up to US$2 million payable primarily … Read More
SOUTH AFRICA: ENGIE acquires 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power plant
ENGIE has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire from Abengoa a 40% equity stake in Xina Solar One, a 100 MW Concentrated Solar plant, as well as … Read More
Magnora ASA Accelerates Growth with a Project Portfolio Pipeline of net 1 GW Potential Solar PV & Onshore Wind
Renewable energy development company Magnora ASA has entered into agreements to acquire 100 percent of the shares in a South African company with a 775 MW greenfield renewable development portfolio. … Read More
MOROCCO: Africa’s first Super Energy Service Company Gets $965,000 Grant
The African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) is providing a $965,000 grant to Morocco’s Société d’Ingénierie Energétique (SIE), to support its transition into the first Super Energy … Read More
DJIBOUTI: KenGen Clinches Multi-well Geothermal drilling Programme Contract
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) PLC has won yet another international contract to drill three geothermal wells in Djibouti. The company today signed a Ksh 709,822, 630 (USD 6,452,933) contract … Read More
