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Norwegian renewables group Scatec ASA has signed a new power purchase agreement (PPA) in Egypt

The deal is with the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) for a total capacity of 1.95 GW solar and 3.9 GWh battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Egypt.

The combined capacity will be the largest solar and BESS installation in Africa and the largest investment in Scatec’s history.

Under the agreement, Scatec will deliver one integrated solar and BESS hybrid system designed to deliver continuous, around-the-clock renewable baseload power.

In addition, Scatec will develop two standalone BESS projects aimed at providing essential grid stability and support services.

Scatec will be compensated under a 25-year, USD-denominated pay-as-produced PPA, linked to the electricity generated by the hybrid system.

It did not disclose further details on capital expenditure, EPC scope and financing structure but added that this information is expected to be released in the latter half of 2026.

The plant is expected to deliver approximately 6,000 GWh of renewable energy annually.

Scatec is the lead developer of the projects and said it will also invite additional equity partners.

It will also provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), asset management (AM) and operations and maintenance (O&M) services for the projects. 

“Signing this groundbreaking PPA further cements Scatec’s leading position and commitment to delivering reliable, renewable energy at a large scale in Africa,” said Scatec CEO Terje Pilskog.

“By integrating advanced solar and battery technologies, we are providing Egypt with sustainable, around-the-clock power and grid stabilising services, supporting both the country’s energy transition and the region’s long-term economic development."

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Totogi has been selected by an Africa-based MVNE to run 30 mobile brands and nearly one million subscribers on a single cloud-native charging platform

Totogi Today has revealed that an Africa-based mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE), supporting around one million subscribers across 30 mobile brands, has chosen Totogi Charging-as-a-Service to manage its entire multi-brand operation on a single cloud-native charging platform

The MVNE oversees a broad mix of prepaid, eSIM, broadband, and value-added mobile services for both consumer and enterprise offerings, all delivered through a unified infrastructure. By adopting Totogi’s pay-as-you-grow, price-per-transaction model, the operator aims to maintain tighter cost control, enable flexible scaling, and simplify the management of multiple brands through one multi-tenant charging environment.

Totogi’s multi-tenant platform introduces a new operating model for the MVNE. Each MVNO brand operates within its own dedicated tenant, with full autonomy to create tariffs, set pricing, and launch promotions, without relying on the MVNE for routine changes. This approach allows brand teams to move faster, while the MVNE retains overarching visibility and governance across the platform. The self-service capability removes much of the operational friction typically associated with supporting multiple MVNOs.

“Running multiple brands on one charging platform is the kind of operational complexity that would paralyse a legacy charging deployment,” said Danielle Rios, CEO of Totogi. “With Charging-as-a-Service on AWS, this MVNE gets elastic scale, instant pricing changes, and the ability to spin up new MVNOs, each with its own separate tenant, without spinning up new infrastructure. Each MVNO controls its own offers; the MVNE manages the platform. This is what modern charging looks like: one platform, 30 brands, a million subscribers, zero change requests.”

The deployment is currently in progress, with full implementation expected to be completed in early 2026.

Ethiopia investing in solar energy

South Africa’s Thabo Consulting Engineering (TCE Africa) and Portugal’s Sun Business Development (Sun BD), have been awarded a contract to provide consultancy services for Ethiopia’s Weranso solar PV project

The contract, worth US$706,790, includes consultancy services for a feasibility study; preparation of an environment and social impact assessment; preparation of a resettlement action plan; and to compile bidding documents for the utility-scale project.

The 100MW Weranso project is being led by the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) with support from the African Development Bank and will be built in the country’s north-eastern region, near to Djibouti.

It forms part of a broader Ethiopia-Djibouti interconnection initiative and expands on the country’s bold energy production ambitions.

The Ethiopian government is also looking at the construction of another utility-scale solar PV projects, Gad II, also 125MW, as it seeks to further expand its renewables power capacity.

In 2025, the country inaugurated the flagship Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which has an installed hydro capacity of 5,150MW.

The government hopes to raise Ethiopia’s total installed capacity from around 9,750MW currently to 14,000MW by 2030, with a strong focus on solar, hydro, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy sources.

EEP is simultaneously upgrading its transmission and distribution infrastructure, most recently completing a capacity expansion at the 230kV Legetafo substation, which it called “a major milestone in strengthening Ethiopia’s regional power grid.”

A defining feature of the project, it noted in a statement, was its execution by its own maintenance professionals, “demonstrating the strength of in-house technical capacity.”

EEP is also moving forward with the Gimbi-Tulu Kapi transmission and substation project in support of the nation’s mining sector, supplying reliable energy to the Tulu Kapi gold mine.

On the Weranso project, TCE Africa and Sun BD secured their contract against competition from other international consultants, including firms from China, Nigeria and Germany.

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