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Weekly Newsletter - 14/05/2020

Dear <<First Name>>,

Please find below this week's summary of renewable and related energy news for Africa and beyond.
Kind regards,
The Camco Team
REPP Announcements

Registration is now open for REPP’s webinar, Gender Mainstreaming in Renewable Energy Project Design, starting at 12 noon (UCT) on Tuesday 26 May.

The capacity-building event aims to provide participants with a better understanding of gender considerations during project development and implementation, as well as clarification on the requirements of REPP’s gender mainstreaming policy.

Camco will also be launching a new toolkit to help project developers establish a gender action plan during the webinar.

To find out more and to register, click here.

West Africa
Burkina Faso: Government to ratify loan agreement for 52MW Yeleen solar PV project Afrik21
Ghana: Power producers to charge Getfund levy, NHIL and VAT on supplies to ECG AEP
Nigeria: Power sector loses N57 billion due to inefficient gas supplies and grid constraints AEP
East Africa
Djibouti: AfDB to provide additional funding for geothermal exploration ESI
Ethiopia: Clean technology Fund becomes first geothermal IPP in country ESI
Tanzania: Highest level of access to electricity reached at 84.6% ESI
Uganda: REA begins US$212 million project to electrify sub-counties and town councils AEP
Southern Africa
Mozambique: US$5.5 million renewable energy projects to be developed AEP
South Africa: Four renewable energy projects totalling 288MW secure MIGA guarantees ESI
South Africa: Cape Town in landmark suit to open South Africa’s power system Engineering News
Zambia: REPP supports Bweengwa geothermal project REPP
Southeast Asia & Caribbean
Laos: Sixth Mekong River dam project to be built Reuters
Singapore: 25 year PPA for floating solar facility PV-Magazine
Regional: COVID-19 will not slow Southeast Asia's shift from coal to renewables Nikkei
Africa General / Rest of World
Africa: Strategic energy planning in SSA is essential but is often constrained ESI
Africa: Egypt lodges complaint to UN Security Council over GERD The East African
General: Report outlines increased mineral consumption for transition to clean energy ESI
General: WEF warns of increasing threats to world's clean energy transition Engineering News
General: Storing wind and solar with new gravity-based system PV-Magazine
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