Nigeria in resolving the chronic power shortage and ensuring increased access to sustainable and cost-efficient power. (Image source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)
African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US$1.5mn grant to support the Nigerian government’s implementation of Phase 1 of the Jigawa 1-GW Independent Power Producer (IPP) solar procurement programme
The electric power production plant aims to provide the relative long term service activities in the North African country. (Image source: CheepShot/Flickr)
Ansaldo Energia has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Société Tunisienne de l’Élecriticité et du Gaz (STEG) to build a 625MW gas-fired open cycle thermoelectric power station in Mornaguia, south-west of Tunis, Tunisia
The construction and the operation of the plants will be managed and executed by Engie. (Image source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)
Engie and investment partner Meridiam have been selected by Senegal’s Electricity Sector Regulation Commission (CRSE) as preferred bidder in a tender launched in October 2017 to build two solar photovoltaic projects totalling 60MW
The project is in line with Africa’s initiative to increase renewable energy programmes. (Image source: Hernán Piñera/Flickr)
Building Energy has signed power purchase agreements with the South African state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd to build, own and operate a 147MW wind plant in Roggeveld and a 4.7MW mini hydroelectric plant in Free State
Matteo Brambilla, managing director at Building Energy for Africa and Middle East, and Alfonso Tagliaferri, Consul of Italy in Cape Town. (Image source: Building Energy)
Building Energy SpA, an integrated global renewable energy company, has donated an off-grid Solar Photovoltaic rooftop power plant with a capacity of 3.12 kwp (DC) to the Italian Consulate in Cape Town