UK minister of state, department of energy and climate change, Greg Barker. (Image source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Flickr)
Kenyas renewable energy sector has attracted the interests of 20 British companies eager to invest in the industry, according to a UK government ministry
Simba Energy has recently traced at least one billion barrels of oil in the Kenyan block. (Image source: Geoff & Dianne Rhodes/Flickr)
Canadian oil and gas explorer Simba Energy has said it will drill its first well in northeast Kenya in 2013
The plant will be located in the south of the Morocco, on 2,500ha of land near the desert-bordering town of Ouarzazate. (Image source: sxc.hu)
Morocco has awarded a US$1bn contract to a ACWA-led consortium for the construction of a solar power plant
The project will entail replacement of high-voltage transformers and direct current smoothing reactors. (Image source: sxc.hu)
Power company ABB has won a contract worth US$50mn from South Africas Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) to renovate Mozambiques Songo high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station
The projects will be part of the larger Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa. (Image source: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino/Flickr)
African heads of state have endorsed 15 energy projects worth US$40.5bn that will be implemented before the end of the decade in a bid to increase energy access across the continent