With the recent announcement of an ambitious power project to connect Cape Town and Cairo within the next three years, the opportunities for reliable cross-border electricity generation are once again in the spotlight
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African Review weekly digest - 3 - 7 April
Here is a brief overview of the weeks new on africanreview.com from 3 - 7 April 2017
Himoinsa expands its series of generator sets with FPT engines up to 600kVA
The four new generators have 17 per cent lower specific consumption than other generators with the same power range, and a service interval that is 200 hours longer
High-technology for Africa’s largest refinery
Dangote Group orders compressors and turbines from MAN Diesel & Turbo for new Nigerian refinery
How could Africa’s electricity sector become more efficient and affordable?
Africa continues to lag behind fellow developing regions in installed generation capacity below 100GW and per capita electricity consumption, economist Moin Siddiqi reports