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Africa-focused miner AngloGold advances decarbonisation in Tanzania, mulls Ghana solar project

Climate pact with rich nations to blame for South Africa power cuts, ANC leader claims

The secretary general of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party Fikile Mbalula has reiterated a claim that the rich nations’ climate finance pact with South Africa is responsible for the recurrent power outages.

Ghana signs two new power deals to enhance generation capacity

AfrElec: Eskom's costly logo design tender draws sharp criticism

Atlantic Lithium expands Ghana’s Ewoyaa project by 8,000 metres

Nigeria's Minister of Power launches probe into electricity distribution licence extensions

Ghana’s Ewoyaa lithium mine to boost US drive to close EV gap on China, shareholder says

Malawi's electricity generation, transmission utilities collaborate with USAID to stabilise national grid

The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) Limited and Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) Malawi Limited on November 8 launched an automatic generation control (AGC) system to better balance generation and demand.

Zimbabwe to mothball its small, inefficient coal power plants, focus on greener generation instead

Zimbabwe’s government has announced a plan to decommission and repurpose its three small underperforming coal-fired facilities so as to contain technical and non-technical energy losses.

Private equity firm C5 Capital to build South Africa’s first mini nuclear reactor within next three years

Private equity firm C5 Capital plans to build South Africa’s first mini nuclear reactor within next three years

Germany invests $27mn in Mozambique renewable energy initiative

The funding, Water Power Magazine reported on November 7, is made available under the Global Energy Transition Feed-in-Tariff (GET FiT), a European Union initiative to advance private investment in renewable energy projects.

Regional development bank DBSA seeks alternative auction model for South Africa’s REIPPPP

The Development Bank of Southern Africa has extended its tender for advice on an alternative auction model for South Africa’s renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme.

Ethiopian Airlines inaugurates electric power substation to boost airport operations

Geothermal projects in Africa to attract $35bn worth of investments by 2050, Rystad Energy predicts

Africa’s geothermal sector will attract at least $35bn in investments by 2050, according to Rystad Energy’s latest projections. This investment will see Africa’s installed geothermal capacity surpass that of Europe by the end of the decade.