AfrElec - Africa Power Monitor

12 August 2022

South Africa: Eskom picks Korean, Chinese manufacturers for $480mn battery storage project

11 August 2022

South Africa: Eskom picks Korean, Chinese manufacturers for $480mn battery storage project

Work underway at Egypt’s El Dabaa NPP

11 August 2022

Russia’s Titan-2 holding said that the installation of two of the four concrete plants as part of the concrete-mortar facility at Egypt’s El-Dabaa NPP had been completed and the target was to put the facilities into operation in full by 15 November.

South Africa: Central Energy Fund completes due diligence on ZAR1bn investment in Renergen’s Virginia gas project

10 August 2022

South Africa: Central Energy Fund completes due diligence on ZAR1bn investment in Renergen’s Virginia gas project

South Africa utility Eskom withdraws Sibangweni village services after worker threatened at gunpoint

10 August 2022

South Africa: Eskom withdraws Sibangweni village services after worker threatened at gunpoint

Ghana poised to announce partner on nuclear power project

10 August 2022

Russian's Rosatom has already signed cooperation agreements with Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Zambia, which also have nuclear ambitions.

US to fund solar power project in Nigeria

9 August 2022

Nigerian authorities will ask the US Export-Import Bank to fund a solar power project, developer Sun Africa LLC has told Bloomberg.

Beacon Power Services completes $2.7mn seed round to improve electric grids in Africa

8 August 2022

Beacon Power Services, an energy technology company providing solutions for energy grid management in Africa, has closed a seed round of $2.7mn, it has revealed.