The new steam turbine and electric generator for the Azito power plant expansion project will be transported to site during the first half of 2014. (Image source: Globeq)
Power company Globeleq said its new 427 MW power plant project in Côte d’Ivoire has been scheduled to commence commercial operations in early 2015
The Grand Inga Dam project would have the potential to generate 44,000 MW of electricty in the coming years. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a US$68mn grant for the Inga hydroelectric power project in DR Congo
The solar power project will be located in northern Ghana and has been scheduled to become operational by 2015. (Image source: Bernd Sieker/Flickr)
Norway’s Scatec Solar has won a contract from the Ghanian government to construct a US$95mn 50MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in the country
The Bumbuna Phase II project is the first venture for Endeavor Energy, which has agreed to invest 75 per cent of the project’s equity. (Image source: Ronald Vriesema/Flickr)
US-based Endeavor Energy has signed an agreement with Joule Africa to jointly develop a US$700mn hydroelectric power project in Sierra Leone
The station in Dabaa will have two units with a capacity to produce upto 1,650MW of energy. (Image source: avda-foto/Flickr)
Egypts Ministry for Electricity and Energy has announced that an international tender to build the country’s first nuclear power station will be launched in January 2014