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Weekly Newsletter - 13/04/2018

Dear <<First Name>>,

Please find below this week's summary of renewable and related energy news for Africa and beyond.
Kind regards,
The REPP Team
West Africa
Cameroon: AFD to align with providers of funds or guarantees for the construction of Nachtigal dam - Alternative Energy Africa
Nigeria: TCN and NDPHC inaugurate 90 power transmission and distribution projects to expand the grid - Alternative Energy Africa
Nigeria: Potential for commercialisation of flared gas through inward investments, approximately $3.5bn - ESI Africa
Nigeria: Formalisation of electricity trading arrangement to be done under WAPP and ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority - ESI Africa
Sahel countries to benefit from AfDB funding of $12bn to provide power for household use, SME and developing solar energy projects - ESI Africa
Mali: Government receives grant from IDA to finance the hybrid rural electriifcation system project - ESI Africa
Ghana: Government earmarks $230m to promote renewable energy deployment of 35,000 systems to off-grid communities - ESI Africa
Guinea: MoU signed with Togo to import LNG produced in Equatorial Guinea - ESI Africa
East Africa
Ethiopia: EEP pre-selects 12 to 28 developers for the 250MW solar pv project via the Scaling Solar program - Alternative Energy Africa
Ethiopia: New Prime Minister elected after turmoil in Oromia and Amhara regions - Alternative Energy Africa
Kenya: Medium term economic activity projected to rise to 6.1% by 2020 - ESI Africa
Uganda: Mobile money has made revenue collection by distribution utilities easier to address - ESI Africa
Rwanda, Togo, DRC and Nigeria: UK crowdfunding aimed to raise $4m, allowing for BBOXX to extend solar system rollout - ESI Africa
Rwanda: Government provides $46m to commercial banks and microfinance institutions to boost finance of small-scale and off-grid renewable enegry projects - The East African
Southern Africa
South Africa: Mobilisation of financing ($395m) for construction of the 258MW solar pv plant has been completed - Alternative Energy Africa
South Africa: Recovery and growth of manufacturing industry expected due to signature of outstanding PPAs - ESI Africa
South Africa: Kusile power plant regarded as cleanest coal-fired power plant after achieving 93% removal rate - Alterntaive Energy Africa
Namibia: MIGA to provide guarantees of up to $18m in support of construction, operation and maintenance of two 5MW solar power plants - ESI Africa
Zimbabwe: Repair work begins on the 1.8GW Kariba Power Dam, costed at ~$294m - Alternative Energy Africa
Caribbean and Southeast Asia
Infrastructural development in micro-grids and off-grid solutions are sought after hurricane devastation destroyed grids - The European Sting
Jamaica: Wigton Windfarm Limited, with installed capacity of 62.7MW, to be listed on JSE - The Gleaner
Colombia: MPC Capital and Martier Renewables launches joint venture to cultivate utility scale solar and wind energy projects - The PE Hub Network
Thailand: Upstart solar and wind companies expanding across Southeast Asia with supporting energy policies in place - Jakarta Globe
Singapore: Frost & Sullivan note industry digitisation initiatives to be future growth of energy and environmental markets - Cision
Singapore: International Energy Week to have theme of transforming energy by investing, innovation and integration - Eco-Business
Africa General / Rest of World
Inspired Evolution secures $35m in commitments from AfDB and Swedfund International AB to develop clean energy infrastructure and resource efficiency growth - Alternative Energy Africa
Egypt: Infinity Solar secures 85% financing from a German bank for the 130MW solar power plant developed under the FiT second phase - Alternative Energy Africa
Germany: Solar mini-grid companies targeted by commercial investors - Alternative Energy Africa
Tunisia: Prime Minister to launch ten projects to develop country's renewable energy sector - Alternative Energy Africa
Portugal: EIB to provide loan of Eur100m to co-finance residential energy and water efficiency refurbishment projects - Devdiscourse
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