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The Mozambican government will sell a majority stake in its 1,500 MW Mphanda Nkuwa hydropower project. Maputo plans to launch the selection process for the new partner before the end of 2021. This mega-hydro project will require an investment of $2.4 billion. Thank you for reading!
Lack of grid capacity and renewable energy institutions are a common lament in sub-Saharan Africa but there is no lack of cash to invest, nor eligible projects in East Africa, as a recent event heard; the problem lies in marrying the two. Thank you for reading!
South Africa’s soot-stained national power utility has signalled its intention to move rapidly away from its mainstay reliance on coal as part of an ambitious decarbonisation strategy known as the Just Energy Transaction plan. Thank you for reading!
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made a fairly radical proposal: the creation of an international carbon floor price to be launched by the largest emitters. The proposal was laid out in a recent IMF staff paper and fleshed out in its blog. Thank you for reading!
SolarX and Schneider Electric (SE) are pleased to announce they have entered into a geographically focused strategic partnership, combining Schneider Electric’s world class technological offering and vast global footprint in Francophone Africa with SolarX’s solid local expertise, EPC capabilities and financial offerings to prospective clients. Thank you for reading!
African countries can stop exporting their battery storage metals and can instead manufacture regionally. Thank you for reading!
A recent study by Ricardo and the Environmental Defense Fund for the P4G Getting to Zero Coalition Partnership has found that South Africa holds an untapped opportunity to supply the global shipping industry with zero carbon fuels. Thank you for reading!
A newly launched Utilities 2.0 Twaake pilot project unites distributed renewable energy companies in Uganda to provide clean power for all through an integrated energy approach. Thank you for reading!
According to a US Power Africa fact sheet, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country of over 85 million people, has a “national electricity access rate of just 9%, with 1% in rural areas and 19% in urban areas”. https://www.esi-africa.com/features-analysis/op-ed-final-frontier-for-renewable-energy-market-investment/ Thank you for reading!
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