AfrElec - Africa Power Monitor

9 October 2022

South Africa: French renewable energy producer Voltalia to build 148MW solar plant for Richards Bay Minerals in Limpopo

6 October 2022

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM), a unit of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, will be the power off-taker of a 148MW solar plant constructed by France’s renewable energy firm Voltalia in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Renewables Now reports.

Zimbabwe's $1.5bn Hwange Thermal Power Station expansion project advances with delivery of new transformers

6 October 2022

Zimbabwe’s electricity utility is due this week to receive two auto sub-station transformers that will help transmit and distribute power to be produced by a coal-fired facility under construction.

South Africa announces new Eskom public utility board amid worsening electricity crisis

3 October 2022

South Africa: Cabinet announces new Eskom board amid worsening electricity crisis

Shell subsidiary set to acquire Nigerian solar energy company

30 September 2022

Shell (UK) may be gearing up to divest its onshore oil and gas assets in Nigeria, but it is also expanding into the renewable and off-grid energy sector to reduce the carbon intensity of its operations.