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January 11, 2019

Nigeria completes construction of 8 multi-million dollar power plants

Nigeria has successfully completed 8 multi-million power plants under the Federal Government’s National Independent Power Project (NIPP) aimed at increasing electricity […]

December 13, 2018

Tanzania to sign deal this week for $3bn power plant – President

Tanzania will sign a deal this week for the construction of a $3-billion hydroelectric power plant, President John Magufuli said in remarks broadcast on state television […]

September 7, 2018

Kenya to start construction of 70MW geothermal power plant in the Olkaria

The construction of the 70MW geothermal power plant in the Olkaria, Kenya is set to start soon. This is after […]

May 21, 2018

China to help Uganda build nuclear power plants

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has signed a memorandum of understanding to help Uganda build and operate nuclear power plants, […]

May 21, 2018

Zimbabwe, China seal US $1bn power deal

Zimbabwe has signed a US $1bn deal with Sinosteel Corp in a development that will see the Chinese firm building a 400MW […]

December 7, 2017

Kenya aims to construct first nuclear power plant by 2027

Kenya hopes to construct its first nuclear power plant by 2027, Nuclear Energy Board Chief Executive Collins Juma has said. […]

October 2, 2017

Zambia to start building two new power plants in 2018

Zambia plans to start building two power generation plants that will add 550 MW of electricity to its national grid once completed, Finance Minister Felix Mutati said on Friday. Mutati […]

September 15, 2017

China to build US$5.8 Billion Hydropower plant in Nigeria

The government of Nigeria has announced the award of a $5.8 billion contract to build the largest power plant in the country. […]

May 25, 2017

Kenya set to break ground on colossal coal-fired power plant

Kenya is set to start building a giant coal-fired power station at Manda Bay near the port city of Lamu […]

April 19, 2017

Rwanda launches Africa’s first peat-fired power plant

Rwandans are likely to begin benefiting from more powerfrom their national grid following the latest opening of a new peat-fired power plant […]

December 14, 2016

China’s Exim Bank boosts Zimbabwe’s Hwange power project

The Zimbabwean government has approved a US$1 billion loan facility from the Exim Bank of China, facilitating work to commence on […]

November 21, 2016

South Africa says construction of coal-fired power plants to continue

South African Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has dismissed objections to the nation building two new coal-fired power stations.

September 27, 2016

Chinese group to design $2.1bn power plant in Zimbabwe

RIOZIM chose a state-owned Chinese company to design a $2.1bn power plant it plans to build in Zimbabwe, which faces […]

August 23, 2016

Eskom under fire as Ingula costs said to balloon to R36bn

According to Engineering News’, board is facing calls to appear before Parliament with documents relating to the Ingula pumped storage scheme, which […]

July 27, 2016

Avon Peaking Power goes online

Avon Peaking Power has commissioned its gas turbine open cycle power plant near Durban in South Africa. The power plant operation project […]

July 26, 2016

Lafarge Africa signs major power plant project in Ashaka

Lafarge Africa Plc has signed an N11 billion contract with Chinese contractor, Rughn Power Corp, to build a captive power plant […]

June 14, 2016

Unit 4 of Ingula power station has begun operation

Unit 4 – of the Ingula pumped-storage power station on the escarpment of the Little Drakensberg mountain range straddling the […]

June 8, 2016

Enel starts production at new solar plant in South Africa

Enel, through its subsidiary Enel Green Power RSA (“EGP RSA”) has completed and connected to the grid the Tom Burke photovoltaic […]

May 27, 2016

Italian construction firm to build major hydroelectric power plant in Ethiopia

Italian construction firm, Salini Impregilo said it has signed an agreement to construct a new hydroelectric power plant in Ethiopia worth […]

May 25, 2016

Kenyan Geothermal power plant project reaches completion

The Menengai Geothermal Power plant in Kenya, a US$500m project currently under construction, is anticipated to be completed by July this year […]

May 17, 2016

Chinese firm to construct 700MW coal power plant in Ghana

The Volta River Authority in Ghana has proposed the construction of a 700MW coal power plant in Ghana. The project […]

May 3, 2016

Ethiopian Electric Power and China sign US$98m power transmission deal

The Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) in conjunction with a Chinese firm, TBEA Contractor Ltd signed a US$98m agreement that will […]

March 24, 2016

Japan begins work on Tanzania’s biggest power plant

Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation has begun work on a $300m gas-fired power station in Tanzania that will increase the country’s generating […]

March 11, 2016

Kenya signs $408m loan with Japan for 140 MW geothermal plant

Kenya and Japan on Wednesday signed a 46-billion yen ($408-million) loan agreement to build a 140 MW geothermal power plant […]

March 11, 2016

Major Power Plant in Botswana to be constructed in expansion plan

Japanese’s Marubeni Corporation and South Korea’s Posco Energy have jointly won an $800 million tender to expand Morupile B power plant in Botswana to

March 10, 2016

Eskom to spend $21bn on new power plants in next five years

Eskom will increase its capital expenditure by 44% to R324-billion ($21-billion) over the next five years to build new power […]

January 22, 2016

Namibia to construct largest gas power plant since independence

Namibia will construct its largest gas power plant since independence, Xaris Holdings, a company managing the project has announced. The […]

January 20, 2016

All systems go for Nigeria’s path-finding gas power plant, Azura

Twenty international banks and equity funders have committed $900m to the Azura-Edo Independent Power Project, a 450MW gas-fired open-cycle power […]

January 13, 2016

Ghana: AMERI power plant to start operations in February

The newly constructed AMERI power plant in Ghana is expected to commence commercial operations by February 2016, Energy Commission Board […]

December 15, 2015

R3bn Mozambique power station commissioned

Following the successful completion of acceptance tests for its 120-MW gas-fired power plant on December 10, independent power producer Gigawatt Mozambique […]

December 7, 2015

Aveng Grinaker-LTA makes progress on the Kusile Power Station Project

Aveng Grinaker-LTA is making good progress on the construction of the Balance of Plant (BOP) mechanical works

November 12, 2015

Zimbabwe begins construction of a mammoth 935km power line

The country has started working on the construction of a 935km power transmission line linking Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe […]

October 8, 2015

South Africa: Dedisa Peaker Power Project begins operation

Commercial operation has begun at the independent gas-fired Dedisa Peaker Power Project in South Africa. The 335 MW gas-fired plant […]

August 31, 2015

Medupi power plant to grow SA’s economy

The completion of Medupi is expected to grow South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by about 0.35% a year, says […]

August 21, 2015

Construction of power plants in Kenya sees drop in imported electricity

The effort of constructing power plants in Kenya has started paying off following a drop in imported electricity from Uganda, […]

June 10, 2015

Mainstream Renewable Power to install 250MW of wind power

Mainstream Renewable Power, an Irish wind and solar company has been awarded a tender to install 250-MW-capacity wind farms by […]

April 24, 2015

Construction of Prieska solar power plant starts

SunPower has announced the start of construction of Prieska solar power plant in Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The new […]

April 24, 2015

Construction on 100 MW power station reaching completion

Construction of a 100 MW natural gas-fired power station at Ressano Garcia is progressing well, with the first of 13 […]

April 20, 2015

Nigeria, Russian company in power plant talks

Talks are ongoing between the government of Nigeria and Rasatom, a Russian company, to build nuclear power plants in Nigeria. […]

April 16, 2015

Ethiopia: Gibe III hydropower plant set to come online this year

The current largest hydropower plant in Ethiopia, the Gibe III, is set to come online this year. During the rainy […]

April 9, 2015

Medupi lock-out a declaration of war – Numsa

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said it would make a decision on Wednesday regarding possible strike […]

April 2, 2015

Progress being made at Medupi

“Medupi Unit 6 was successfully synchronised to the national power grid on 2 March 2015 and is currently being progressively […]

March 31, 2015

Zambia, Zimbabwe to construct power station

According to Zambia’s Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister, Christopher Yaluma, Zambia is set to start construction of a 1600-MW […]

March 3, 2015

Medupi produces first power

“Eskom is pleased to announce that first power was produced out of Medupi’s Unit 6 today at 11:03am, making it […]

March 3, 2015

Kenya’s US$2bn coal power plant to commence construction in October

Construction of a multimillion coal power plant in Lamu, Kenya will commence in October, Amu Power a consortium of Centum […]

February 9, 2015

Dutch firm to spend $2 billion on solar power in Africa by 2020

Dutch company Gigawatt Global said it will spend $2-billion to generate 1 000 MW of solar power in Africa by […]

January 23, 2015

Medupi synchronisation ‘on track’

Trade union Solidarity on Thursday said there were indications that Eskom was on track for a mid-February synchronisation of Medupi […]

January 22, 2015

Gulf Energy and Centum to construct the US$ 2bn coal power plant in Lamu

Gulf Energy Limited and Centum Investment have been given the go ahead to construct a US$ 2bn coal power plant […]

December 10, 2014

KenGen seeks design, construction bids for power projects

Kenya Electricity Generating (KenGen) is seeking bids for the design and construction of two geothermal power plants with capacity totalling […]

December 9, 2014

New power plant on the cards for Ghana

Ghana is planning to set up a new 360-megawatt combined-cycle thermal power plant at the Inchaban in the Shama District […]

December 8, 2014

Thermax wins contract for captive power plant in Africa

This is the second order received by Thermax from the same African company. In October this year, Thermax was awarded […]

November 26, 2014

Another Majuba coal silo collapse on the cards?

Nearly a month after the catastrophic failure of the 10 000 t central coal-storage silo at its Majuba power plant, […]

November 13, 2014

Senegal targets 70% power capacity increase in 3 years

Senegal aims to increase its power generation capacity by over 70% in three years as it brings more sources of […]

November 13, 2014

Limpopo to get new R39bn power plant

A R39-billion power station to help ease South Africa’s energy demand is expected to be built in Limpopo near Musina […]

November 12, 2014

What could have happened at Majuba?

Accidents do happen, and Silo accidents can happen very suddenly – Concrete.TV interviewed Chemical Investigation Specialist, Simon Norton on his […]

November 11, 2014

KEPCO to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt

Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) has announced that South Korea has signed an MOU with Arab Contractors, a leader in […]

November 4, 2014

Kenya’s National Cement to construct a US$19.0m coal-fired power plant

Kenya’s National Cement is planning to construct a new coal-fired power plant in Kajiado in a bid to source power […]

October 31, 2014

Jaguar Overseas limited to rehabilitate Harare thermal power station

Indian industrial engineering firm Jaguar Overseas Limited has been awarded a tender to rehabilitate Harare Thermal Power station. Rehabilitation will […]