The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has approved Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Companys (ZETDC) proposal to buy electricity from the Dema diesel emergency power plant at a cost of US$15.45 cents per kilowatt per hour
Energy
Chinese firm wins Uganda substations project worth US$100mn
Chinese construction firm Camc has been awarded a contract by Ugandan government to build four substations, at a cost of about US$100mn
Ethiopia to electrify 2,000 villages by September
The Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity has announced that 2,000 villages in the country will be electrified until the end of this fiscal year
New US$22mn fuel depot launched in Rwanda
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has inaugurated a US$22mn fuel depot in Gasabo District’s Rusororo sector on the outskirts of Kigali
ACWA Power eyes South Africa’s CSP project
Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power aims to close financing for South Africa’s 100MW Redstone concentrated solar power (CSP) thermal plant in July 2016