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Weekly Newsletter - 16/03/2018

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
DRC: UN Procurement Division to upgrade electrical system and connecting MONUSCO sites in Kisangani, Bunia and Uvira to the hydroelectrical grid - ESI Africa
Sierra Leone: responsAbility-managed energy company to provide development and construction equity finance to for first 5MW phase of 25MW solar PV power plant - ESI Africa
Guinea: EximBank approves $1.3bn financing for hydroelectric plant, capacity sufficient to export to other western African countries - ESI Africa
Nigeria: Signed treaty with Niger and Algeria to build $12bn pipeline and aimed to achieve zero gas flaring by 2020 - ESI Africa
Ghana: Government to install 200,000 solar systems in urban and non-electrified communities and replace kerosene lamps with solar lanterns - ESI Africa
West Africa: Governments, municipalities and stakeholders realise the need to modernise streetlighting to achieve energy efficiency targets - ESI Africa
East Africa
Sudan: Siemens signs O&M contract for Sudanese Thermal Power Generating Company, assets operating at Port Sudan and Garri power plants - Alternative Energy Africa
Rwanda: Community-owned cooperatives join forces with mini-grid developers to construct pico-hydro grids, increasing community buy-in - ESI Africa
Rwanda: Mara Corporation Ltd and SB Energy Corp ot develop 30MW solar and storage power plant - ESI Africa
Ethiopia: EEP to enter into long-term PPA with successful bidder from competitive bidding process to finance, develop 564MW hydroelectric power project - ESI Africa
Ethiopia: World Bank approves $375m IDA credit to support vision  of universal electricity access by 2025 - Renewable Energy World
East and Southern Africa: MFA Finland signed Eur15m financing commitment to EEP to support clean energy access and sustainable green  growth - ESI Africa
Southern Africa
Zimbabwe: Econet to invest $250m in solar energy
projects, providng renewable energy to industries, businesses and households
- Alternative Energy Africa
Zimbabwe: Country seen as regional hub for power distibution by ZEDTC by 2021 - ESI Africa
Angola: Chinese investments, totalling $9bn, to support the construction of hydropower plants - Alternative Energy Africa
South Africa: Hogan Lovells, in partnership with SEED and Barefoot College, launch initiative to improve gender equality by establishing start-ups - ESI Africa
South Africa: Carbon tax to be implemented from the 1st January 2019 - Engineering News
South Africa: Nuclear energy not seen as any more expensive than any other energy source, when the fleet approach drives down the cost - ESI Africa
Africa General / Rest of World
Algeria: Inaugurationon of 421MW power plant will allow for export of electricity to Libya and Tunisia - Alternative Energy Africa
Libya: iQ Power and MFZ sign MoU to develop renewable energy and sustainable development in the MENA region - Alternative Energy Africa
Japan: Government looks to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy sources by 24% by 2030 - Alternative Energy Africa
Egypt: Authorities inaugurated 64MW solar power plant, the first in a series of 32 facilities - Alternative Energy Africa
UK: Gore Street Capital seeking to raise $139m to invest in large-scale batteries, thereby establishing the first energy storage fund - Renewable Energy World
Southeast Asia: Corporate energy market slowly on the rise - Bloomberg New Energy Finance
World Economic Forum finds worldwide progress towards environmental sustainability has stalled, while energy prices have risen - Alternative Energy Africa
AfDB partners with the International Solar Alliance support the scale up of solar and develop finance instruments for off-grid solar projects - Alternative Energy Africa
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