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Egypt’s Kom Ombo solar plant receives $114mn financing package
The EBRD, the OPEC Fund for International Development, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Arab Bank have signed a $114mn financing package with ACWA Power to build the largest private solar plant in Egypt.
Off-grid solar offers potential to improve Nigerian power supplies
Nigerian Power Minister Goddy Jedy-Agba has claimed that investing in off-grid solar projects will improve the reliability of power supplies to domestic and industrial customers as well as reduce power bills.
Ghana connects 22-MW solar project to grid
Ghana has commissioned its largest utility-scale solar project to date in the northeast of the country as the country aims to lessen its dependence on hydropower in rural areas.
Sudan appeals to UN Security Council to progress GERD talks
The Sudanese government has appealed to the UN Security Council to break the deadlock in talks between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Rwanda’s Rusumo HPP to open in 2021
The first unit at the 80-MW Regional Rusumo hydroelectric power project in Rwanda could be operational by the end of 2021.
Emissions set to bounce back with a vengeance in 2021
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are forecast to increase by 4.8% to 33bn tonnes in 2021, the largest rise since 2010, with the global economy’s post-COVID-19 recovery expected to be particularly carbon intensive.
Shell, Equinor call on Tanzania to make “critical decisions” about LNG project
Representatives of Royal Dutch Shell (UK/Netherlands) and Equinor (Norway) have urged Tanzania’s government to wrap up talks on an ambitious LNG project as quickly as possible.
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