Camco REPP Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter - 22/11/2019

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

West Africa

Cameroon: US$500,000 received from PIDG for Kpep hydro dam Construction Review
Cameroon: China donates solar systems to power TVs in rural villages Afrik21
Ghana: Country's first mini hydro project (45kW) completed Afrik21

East Africa

Ethiopia: Partnership with Voith to optimise hydro energy production at Gilgel Gibe 2 renews.biz
Kenya: Construction begins on 400Kv Konza-Isinya transmission project Construction Review
Kenya: Worlds first rope mounted solar PV system installed at eco lodge GBA
Kenya: 36MW wind farm to be constructed to power Mombasa cement plant GlobalCement

Southern Africa

Madagascar: 460kW solar plant comissioned for use at mine Afrik21
South Africa: Energy transition offers opportunity to upscale renewables Engineering News
Zambia: GCF and AfDB will finance US$154 million of renewable projects RenewablesNow
Zimbabwe: Plnas for 2000MWh pumped hydro storage and 300MWp of floating solar for Osborne Dam Afrik21

Southeast Asia & Caribbean

Dominican Republic: Construction on 58MW solar plant begins PV-Tech
Indonesia: Two private resort Islands now fully powered by solar microgrids PV-Magazine
Singapore: Billionaires back Australian solar farm that will export power to Singapore The Guardian

Africa General / Rest of World

Africa: Power sector investment of US$141 billion scheduled for 2019-2028 smart-energy
Africa: Ex Nampak CEO Andre de Ruyter appointed as new Eskom CEO ESI
General: EasyJet first airline set to become carbon neutral CleanTechnica
General: Rising global temperatures 'may have triggered faster wind speeds' The Guardian
General: Worlds largest energy storage facility in Australia to be expanded by 50% Reuters
General: Technology advances in CSP has to backing by Bill Gates SolarPaces

Technology

Monitoring: Vattenfall and Microsoft piloting energy consumption scheme using hourly based data renews.biz
Storage: Interest mounts in gravity-based storage systems PV-Magazine

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