#Africa

The fund aims to link the countries in the region with power transmission lines.

Nextracker said that it has surpassed a corporate milestone of 10 GW of smart solar trackers operational or under fulfilment for projects located in the Middle East, Africa and India.

UAE has announced massive investments into clean energy in Africa.

The African Development Fund (ADF) has mobilised $8.9 B for Africa’s low-income countries, the highest replenishment in its 50-year history.

Africa: Daystar Power, a West African provider of hybrid solar power solutions, has announced its acquisition by Shell.

Africa: A sustainability-driven energy service provider has successfully commissioned decentralised solar energy solutions in Senegal, Nigeria and Mali.

The African Union has launched the African Single Electricity Market which will one day become the world’s largest continent-wide energy trading programme.

Africa: The African Investment Forum (AIF) has announced plans to showcase the $50 B worth of bankable projects in the works.

Africa: The African Development Bank Group and Africa50 are seeking collaboration with global partners to create an Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa.

UK, Glasgow: Top winners of the 2021 Ashden Awards announced at COP26 are African climate innovators from Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Africa: The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) will receive a cash injection of $134.5 M from the German government.

Africa: IRENA will partner with the IAEA as a modelling partner for the development of the African Continental Power Systems Master Plan (CMP).

Africa: The board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved $170.9 M in financing for the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) program.

Africa: The African Development Bank together with the Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Export-Import Bank of Korea have signed an agreement.

South Africa, Johannesburg: Italy-based TECSYSTEM has appointed Trafo Power Solutions as its distributor in sub-Saharan Africa.

Innovative solar solutions are at the forefront of Orange’s initiative to avoid using generators that run on fossil fuels that emit CO2.

Siemens Energy, a world leading energy technology company, announces the appointment of Nadja Haakansson as Managing Director for Africa, effective April 1.

Nigeria, Abuja: With over half of Nigeria’s population under the age of eighteen, the future of the nation lies with its youth.

Metier has made a substantial investment into Broadreach Energy, in support of C&I renewable energy projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

South Africa: OR Tambo International Airport was plunged into darkness after a transformer at a Kempton Park substation caught fire on Sunday morning. The Ekurhuleni…

UK: CDC Group, the UK government’s foreign investment arm, has announced it will invest $300 M in power grid development in Africa over the next five years.

Africa, Congo: The African Development Bank has approved an $11 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo to support a regional project aimed at extending access to electricity within the country as well as to neighbouring Nile Equatorial Lakes countries in the short term.

Africa: With over 635 million people without access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa, the need for investment in the growth and development of its power sector is huge.

In Africa, the Ethiopian Electric Utility and Uganda’s Rural Electrification Agency have announced tenders for the procurement of electrical equipment.

Nigeria, Katsina: Katsina State government will be procuring new transformer units in order to boost power supply in the state.

Transformers Magazine has spoken to Prince Moyo, General Manager for Power Delivery Engineering at ESKOM – Africa’s largest and one of the largest utilities in the world, in the interview which will be published in its entirety in the upcoming October edition of Transformers Magazine.

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: Turkish-based Sunrise Engineering and Machinery Manufacturing PLC, a company engaged in the business of manufacturing and distribution of transformers in Ethiopia for more than a year, is currently looking to expand its production capacity with an additional investment of $5million to $7.5 million.