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| African Power Platform - Newsletter #11 | ||||||||
Week 17, 2019 | |||||||||
EDITORIAL | |||||||||
Dear reader, Welcome to the eleventh African Power Platform (APP) newsletter. We have received over 50 applications to the Africa Power Access Accelerator program. They are under evaluation and feedback will be provided during this 2nd quarter. Meanwhile the 2nd application round is open. A big thank you to all that have been supporting this initiative. On this edition we started publishing press releases that come our way. If you have relevant announcements to the power sector in Africa, we'd be pleased to circulate them. We'd also like to drive your attention to a survey IRENA is conducting regarding institutional investments in renewable energy. On the news side, we highlight the 2nd round of the Scaling Solar program moving forward in Ethiopia and we are talking about 500MW. Seems Berkeley Energy is planning an exit, an anticipated strategy from a developer that never put up a structure to manage operating assets. I've been to Rendeavour's Tatu City, in Nairobi's surroundings and it's a massive urban development, now being powered by 1 MW of rooftop solar. Malawi, the warm heart of Africa, is seeing progress on the development of a large hydro, roughly same size of the country's existing installed capacity. That's all for this week. Keep well, keep energized. Meanwhile, the APP keeps here, serving the power industry in Africa.
Jorge Lascas Founder & Managing Director | |||||||||
INTERVIEW | |||||||||
Jorge Lascas is a firm believer in the social and economic growth of Africa. Here he speaks with Suzanne Pritchard about how the African Power Platform is striving to make Africa a brighter place for all. | |||||||||
FROM THE PRESS | |||||||||
EAST AFRICA: KawiSafi raises $70 million to expand solar off grid. Read the article >> KawiSafi Ventures, an investment fund that finances companies specialising in off-grid solar energy, has raised $70 million for projects in East Africa. The financial mobilisation was carried out through Acumen Capital Partners, an organisation that invests in sustainable and socially responsible companies. | |||||||||
WEST AFRICA: ECOWAS and PFAN ink partnership to boost renewable energy. Read the article >> The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and the Private Finance Advisory Network (PFAN) have signed a partnership agreement to promote renewable energy within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). | |||||||||
AFRICA: $20 million from AECF for solar kit suppliers from 5 countries. Read the article >> The African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), an investment fund set up by the British government, has published the list of the five African countries selected for the React Household Solar Round 2 competition. The objective is to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups that provide solar home-kits with a total investment of $20 million. | |||||||||
ETHIOPIA: Country eyes 500MW in IFC's Scaling Solar Round 2. Read the article >> Ethiopia kickstarted the second round of its World Bank-led Scaling Solar programme with a 500MW solar tender, while the first 250MW round is still approaching the final proposal stage. | |||||||||
AFRICA: Renewables investor Berkeley hires JP Morgan to review options. Read the article >> The founders of renewables energy investor Berkeley Energy have hired U.S. investment bank JP Morgan to evaluate options, including a sale, for the company’s investment funds, which could be worth around $500 million, banking sources said. | |||||||||
AFRICA: Ncondezi and GridX partner in solar mini-grids and storage. Read the article >> Ncondezi Energy, a British company, and GridX Africa Development, a private power producer (PPP), are fine-tuning an agreement to create a joint venture specialising in solar mini grids for businesses and shops in Africa. | |||||||||
KENYA: Rendeavour finishes first project of its 30 MW plan for the country. Read the article >> The African property developer has completed a 1 MW rooftop PV array at an industrial park in Nairobi. The installation is its first solar project in Kenya and part of a planned 30 MW rollout at Tatu City, its new mixed-use development in the capital. | |||||||||
MALAWI: Development agreement signed for 258-MW Mpatamanga hydropower project. Read the article >> IFC InfraVentures has signed a joint development agreement with the government of Malawi to develop the 258-MW Mpatamanga hydropower project on the Shire River in Malawi. | |||||||||
AFRICA: Winch Energy secures multi million dollar investment in new partnership with AlGihaz Holding. Read the article >> Funding will drive growth for Winch Energy in off grid energy and ancillary services. | |||||||||
ZIMBABWE: Independent power producers gear up for solar power plants. Read the article >> Three independent power producers have applied to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) for licenses to establish solar power plants that will add about 100 MW to the national grid. | |||||||||
PRESS RELEASES | |||||||||
PRESS RELEASE: EDP supports six access to sustainable energy projects in Africa. Read the article >> The new Fund launched by the group will boost education, health and community projects in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi, impacting the lives of 55,000 people. | |||||||||
PRESS RELEASE: Solar solution in the Serengeti enhances Singita’s lodge sustainability. Read the article >> GridX Africa Development, in association with Solar Africa, has completed a state-of-the-art solar-battery system at Singita Faru Faru Lodge, in the western corridor of the Serengeti, Tanzania. The new energy system replaces existing diesel generation, with 90% of power to the lodge now sourced from renewables. | |||||||||
PRESS RELEASE: Putting markets to work: How Ghana will fund development projects through carbon finance. Read the article >> Using carbon finance generated from investors’ sales of ITMOs to boost the share of the national green fund, will allow for high social impact, or climate change adaptation focused projects to go ahead. | |||||||||
FROM THE MEMBERS | |||||||||
New Southern Energy has completed the first floating PV project located in South Africa, with the installation operating at a dam next to a fruit farm just outside of Franschhoek in the country’s Western Cape province. | |||||||||
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the formation of a global innovation team dedicated to working with clients to address their most pressing priorities through creative and innovative solutions.
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We have an extraordinary opportunity for electricity reform in South Africa. If our renewable resources are harnessed, we not only have 20 years of upskilling and job creation, but with our natural resources we could have, sustainably, the cheapest electricity in the world. | |||||||||
EWT, a leading supplier of distributed wind energy turbines, announces the launch of its most efficient and high energy producing wind turbine to date: the new 900kW EWT DW61. | |||||||||
The inauguration ceremony was held for the commissioning of the 246 kWp solar installation on the roof of Kamal Osman Jamjoom Co. L.L.C., situated in Dubai Investment Park (DIP). The entire rooftop installation was managed by Sara Oda, a project manager for Enerwhere, the leading DEWA certified solar PV contractor based in Dubai. | |||||||||
TENDERS | |||||||||
Submission deadline: 27th May 2019 | Category: Consultancy Country: Mozambique | Entity: Enabel
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Submission deadline: 6th May 2019 | Category: EPC Country: Malawi | Entity: JCM Power
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Submission deadline: Extension to 20th May 2019 | Category: EPC Country: Burkina Faso | Entity: SONABEL
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Submission deadline: 10th June 2019 | Category: EPC Country: Guinea | Entity: Electricité de Guinée (EDG)
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Submission deadline: 24th May 2019 | Category: Supply Country: The Gambia | Entity: NAWEC
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Submission deadline: 3rd June 2019 | Category: IPP Country: Nigeria | Entity: Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
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Supply and delivery of medium and low voltage electrical network equipment for the Ambatosia-Bealanana hydroelectric project View details >> Submission deadline: 22nd April 2019 | Category: Supply Region: Madagascar | Entity: European Union (EU)
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ACCELERATOR | |||||||||
The “Africa Power Access Accelerator” program, by the African Power Platform, bridges the existing gap between project developers and consultants / technology providers / financiers. Second application window closes on the 30th June 2019.
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GRANTS | |||||||||
The second competition window under the Powering Opportunities Partnership (POP) is now open. It calls for demonstration projects related to Local Value Addition and Employment Creation in the upstream off-grid energy sector. Eligible Countries: Sub-Saharan African countries, excluding South Africa Deadline: 17th May 2019. | |||||||||
The Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP) and our partners, Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) and SE4ALL, have launched the Million Cool Roofs Challenge, a $2 million global competition to increase access to affordable, sustainable cooling through the rapid deployment of highly solar-reflective “cool” roofs in developing countries suffering heat stress. | |||||||||
UPCOMING EVENTS | |||||||||
Date: 8 - 10 May 2019 | Location: Nairobi, Kenya | |||||||||
Date: 14 - 16 May 2019 | Location: Cape Town, South Africa | |||||||||
Date: 11 - 14 June 2019 | Location: Lisbon, Portugal | Discount Code: APP15
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SURVEY | |||||||||
As part of its mandate to help countries transition to a sustainable energy future, which necessitates a massive shift in capital flows towards renewable energy, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is currently undertaking a survey on the behavior of institutional investors in renewable energy and we would love to hear your view on this topic. Objective of the survey is to gather qualitative and quantitative insights on institutional investments in the renewable energy sector, in order to identify challenges and offer solutions to stakeholders, including to policymakers of about 180 countries who regularly engage with IRENA. | |||||||||
FEATURED REPORT | |||||||||
Publication date: 2019, January | Author: IRENA The IRENA/ADFD Project Facility represents a partnership between the two key organisations to promote renewable energy in developing countries. This report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) reviews concrete progress over the first five years of their joint facility to finance such projects. Between 2014 and 2018, projects selected in five annual cycles were awarded concessional loans worth USD 214 million, with 16 projects subsequently advancing through various stages of implementation. Seven projects from early cycles reached the construction or installation stage, with renewable power generation set to start in 2019.
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