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  • Egyptian minister says electricity network to begin operation in Sudan 1 may
    Apr 29, 2008 - BBC Monitoring

    The Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy, Hassan Yunis, announced that the operation of the electricity power network and illumination of Wau city in south Sudan will be on Thursday [ 1 May] as the first fruit of the cooperation between Egypt and the Government of South Sudan in the field of electricity power through a grant of 154 million pounds.

  • Multi-Million Power Line Commissioned
    Apr 1, 2008 - The Namibian/All Africa Global Media

    A multi-million-dollar Victoria Falls-Katima Mulilo power line was commissioned on Friday by President Hifikepunye Pohamba and his Zambian counterpart, Levy Mwanawasa.

  • Rwanda to Tap From Regional Power Project
    Mar 4, 2008 - Rwanda News Agency - All Africa Global Media

    Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania are to benefit from an 80 Megawatt hydroelectric power project to be built with the help of the Nile Equatorial Lake Subsidiary Action Programme, RNA reports.

  • EC Approves 4.8 Million Euros for Rural Electrification
    Feb 12, 2008 - The Analyst/All Africa Global Media

    The European Commission approved a 4.8 million Euro contribution (approximately USD 7 million) to a program linking three counties to the West African Power Pool (WAPP).

  • SKorea's KEPCO wins 450 mln usd deal to build infrastructure in West Africa
    Feb 11, 2008 - Thomson Financial

    Korea Electric Power Corp said Monday it has secured a 450 million dollar contract to build power infrastructure in West Africa.

  • Country Eyes Uganda Power
    Feb 6, 2008 - All Africa Global Media

    Uganda could export significant amounts of electricity to DR Congo in future, though the country is currently grappling with severe energy shortages, the Minister of Energy, has said.

  • Africa's Energy Hope - Turning to the Private Sector (pdf)
    January/February, 2008 - Jeannot Boussougouth - EnergyBiz

    Developing the continent’s energy infrastructure is widely seen as one of the key growth strategies for Africa. The continent’s electricity supply industry is expected to require a total investment of $563 billion over the next 20 years to meet the growing demand.

  • Power Cuts in Zimbawe Worsen As Country Begins Electricity Exports to Namibia
    Jan 11, 2008 - BBC Monitoring Africa

    Power cuts worsened throughout the country this week after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) started exporting power to Namibia at a time when Mozambican power utilities Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) and Electrica de Mocambique suspended supplies to Zimbabwe over a ballooning debt.

  • Mozambique Cuts Off Power to Zimbabwe Over "Unpaid Debt"
    Jan 8, 2008 - BBC Monitoring Africa

    Mozambique's Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) power utility has suspended supplies to Zimbabwe over unpaid debt, adding more woes to a country in deep recession and grappling with shortages of hard cash, food and every essential commodity.

  • World Bank to finance Ethiopia Sudan electricity connection
    Dec 22, 2007 - Tesfa-alem Tekle - Sudan Tribune

    The World Bank has agreed to loan 41-million dollar to Ethiopia to finance electricity connection between neighbouring Ethiopia and Sudan, a statement said yesterday.

  • ABB awarded Angola grid connection contract
    Nov 21, 2007 - Datamonitor

    Swiss power and automation technology group ABB has won a $45 million contract from Angola's Empresa Nacional de Electricidade to connect the electric grids in the northern and central parts of the country.

  • Nampower to Tap Into Regional Grid
    Nov 13, 2007 - New Era/ All Africa Global Media
    National power utility, NamPower, is optimistic Namibia will start receiving electricity through the Caprivi Link Interconnector Power Line by 2009.

  • Ethiopia plans to upgrade electric transmission lines by 16 folds
    Nov 12, 2007 - Xinhua
    Ethiopia plans to upgrade the country's current electric transmission line capacity over 16 times the current one by 2010, the private Daily Monitor newspaper reported on Monday.

  • ABB wins 180 mln usd power order in Namibia
    Nov 9, 2007 - Forbes - Thomson Financial

    ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - ABB Ltd said it has won an order worth 180 mln usd from the Namibian national power utility, NamPower, to connect two parts of the country's power grid and strengthen electricity networks in southern Africa.

  • Angolan gov't to invest 120 million dollars to build power transmission line
    Nov 4, 2007 - Xinhua

    The Angolan government has recently approved the project of building a 220-kv power transmission line between Gabela and Quileva as well as the construction of corresponding infrastructure.

  • Angola approves power transmission project
    Oct 28, 2007 - Xinhua

    The Angolan government has approved the construction of a 220-kilovolt power transmission line and relevant infrastructural projects in northern Uige Province, Angola's official news agency ANGOP reported on Sunday.

  • Kenya's Interest Fading in Zambia-TZ Power Pool
    Oct 8, 2007 - All Africa Global Media

    The Eastern Africa power connectivity plan may not take off unless Zambia, the main supplier in the interconnection project, demonstrates its capacity to generate more power for distribution to Kenya and Tanzania.

  • Uganda's energy-saving bulbs lead reduction in load shedding
    Oct 1, 2007 - Xinhua

    The introduction of energy-saving bulbs a few months ago has resulted into the saving of 30 mega watts in Uganda, which has led to reduction in load shedding in the country.

  • Morocco to host international conference on rural electrification
    Sep 5, 2007 - Xinhua

    An international conference on rural electrification, on the theme "electrification and development," will be held in January 2008 in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, at initiative of the country's national electricity authority (ONE).

  • Caprivi Power Line Closer to Reality Windhoek
    Aug 29, 2007 - The Namibian/All Africa Global Media

    NAMIBIA'S power utility, NamPower, says it is ready for the construction of the first phase of the N$3,21 billion Caprivi Link Interconnector Project.

  • East Africa: Regional Power Pool Starts in 2011
    August 22, 2007 - All Africa Global Media

    Ugandan President, Mr Yoweri Museveni, said the strategy is to build grid interconnections to enable power flow from places of abundance to power deficit areas.

  • Electricity in Africa: The dark continent
    Aug 16th 2007 - The Economist

    DAR ES SALAAM - Power shortages have become one of the biggest brakes on development.

  • Cote d'Ivoire to resume electricity supplies to Benin, Togo
    Aug 12, 2007 - Xinhua

    Cote d'Ivoire's president Laurent Gbagbo has announced, after a brief official visit in Cotonou, that his country will resume with "immediate effect" electricity supply to Benin and Togo.

  • Sudan, Ethiopia seek to boost energy cooperation
    Khartoum, Aug 06, 2007 -- BBC Monitoring

    The ministry of energy and mining and Ethiopia began steps to boost the cooperation between them in the interest of the two nations, especially in the electrical power and petroleum fields. Minister of Energy and Mining Dr Awad Ahmad al-Jaz hailed the progress of the relations between Sudan and Ethiopia in all domains. He said that the cooperation between the two countries will not be confined to the electrical power and petroleum fields, but will expand to cover various domains. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian Minister of Energy expressed his appreciation of the unlimited cooperation between the two countries, affirming that the cooperation between Ethiopia and Sudan is a good model for economic cooperation in Africa.

  • Electric interconnections of eastern African countries well underway
    Aug 1, 2007 - Xinhua

    The electric interconnection of eastern Africa countries has been well underway, the private Walta Information Center reported onWednesday.

    The news agency quoted Callixte Kampanda, executive secretary of the Addis Ababa-based Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP), as saying that the interconnection between Kenya-Uganda and Rwanda- Burundi-the Democratic Republic of Congo has already been completed.

  • KEPCO signs power line consulting contract with African electricity body
     Jul 24, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source

    South Korea's power corporation said Monday it has won two consulting contracts for the building of electricity lines in western Africa.

  • World Bank Approves Mozambique, Malawi Electricity Loans London,
    Jul 19, 2007 -- Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/All Africa Global Media

    The World Bank's Board of Directors on Wednesday approved two loans to fund the building of new transmission lines between Mozambique and neighbouring Malawi.

  • Uganda: Regional Power Connection to Cost $1b
    July 16, 2007 New Vision/AllAfrica.com

    Power transmission interconnection for East Africa will cost about $1,083.2m (sh1,776b), Mac Cosgrove-Davies, the World Bank's senior energy specialist, has said. The project aims at enabling Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea and Ethiopia share power in case one of the countries has a power shortage.

    http://allafrica.com/stories/200707130028.html

  • Zambian, Kenyan power to feed national electricity grid
    July 14, 2007 SOSTHENES MWITA in Dodoma Daily News On Saturday;

    The government has drawn longterm electricity supply plans that include linking the national power grid to the grids of Zambia and Kenya so that Tanzania sources electricity from the Southern Africa Power Pool and the East Africa Power Pool.

    http://www.dailynews-tsn.com/page.php?id=7749

  • East African power utilities agree on sharing project
    Jul 9, 2007 - Xinhua

    The East African power utilities have agreed to form and quickly implement a regional electricity interconnection project to help member states share electricity in the region efficiently, reliably and affordably.

  • 210,000 New Electricity Connections By 2009
    Jun 25, 2007 -- Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/All Africa Global Media

    Mozambique's publicly owned electricity company, EDM, has pledged to provide 210,000 new connections in the period between 2007 and 2009.

  • China to help finance Senegal's power project
    June 13, 2007

    China is ready to help finance an electricity transmission and transformation project in Senegal, reports from the Senegalese capital of Dakar reaching Abidjan said Tuesday.

  • Mozambique: Sweden to Finance Power Line in Niassa,
    June 13, 2007 - allafrica.com

    Maputo Sweden has pledged 80 million Swedish crowns (about 11.3 million US dollars) to build a new electricity transmission line in Mozambique's northernmost province of Niassa, according to the economic councillor at the Swedish embassy in Maputo, Anton Johnston.

    http://allafrica.com/stories/200706130898.html

  • President Obasanjo Commissions Kano-Dutse Transmission Lines
    Apr 27, 2007 -- Nigeria First/All Africa Global Media

    Abuja: President Olusegun Obasanjo, on April 26 commissioned the Kano-Dutse 132KVA Double Circuit Transmission Lines as part of his administration's commitment aimed at improving the power supply situation in the country.

  • Zambia embarks on plan on electricity coverage expansion
    Mar 28, 2007 - Xinhua

    The Zambian government is working on a Rural Electrification Master Plan at a cost of 500 million U. S. dollars to cover the period from the year 2008 to 2030, state- owned Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) reported Wednesday.

  • Preparation for three-nation power interconnection under way
    LUSAKA, Mar 18, 2007 - Xinhua

    Preparation work for the power interconnection project among Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya has reached an advanced level with the three countries pledging their commitment to constructing the 330 kv interconnector power line at a cost of 670 million U.S. dollars, Zambia Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

  • Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya Ministers to Convene Over Power Interconnection
    Feb 27, 2007 - Xinhua

    Energy ministers from Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya are scheduled to meet here next month to discuss the implementation of the proposed power interconnection project among the three countries, Times of Zambia reported on Tuesday.

  • Zimbabwe: Southern African Power Pool Warns Country
    Jan. 19, 2007, Makoshori, Shame; Zimbabwe Independant - AllAfrica.com

    The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) has warned that electricity transmission bottlenecks in Zimbabwe's power infrastructure are affecting power transmission between utilities in the region.

    http://www.tralac.org/scripts/content.php?id=5655

  • New power line to be built from Ethiopia to Kenya
    Nov. 14, 2006, John Oyuke, East African Standard/All Africa Global Media

    Work on the proposed Sh72 billion high-voltage power transmission line from Ethiopia to Kenya is set to commence next month. Kenya Electricity Generating company has disclosed that the implementation schedule for the project has already been set up, with its commissioning now earmarked for October 2014.

  • Eskom set to import Botswana electricity
    Nov. 14, 2006 Khulu Phasiwe, Business Day/All Africa Global Media

    Eskom was set to import 70% of the 3600MW electricity that would be generated at the new $5,5bn Mmamabula power station in Botswana, the power utility said yesterday.

    http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A317467
  • Ethiopia, Kenya sign agreement to construct power-line to Sudan
    Sept. 25, 2006, Walta Information Centre website, Addis Ababa, BBC Monitoring |

    The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has announced the conclusion between Ethiopia and Kenya of an agreement allowing for the commencement of physical construction of a transmission line to the Sudan in the framework of the Ethiopia-Kenya Interconnection Project.
  • Kenya may export power to Uganda
    Jun 23, 2006 - People's Daily English Version

    Kenya's electricity officials said Thursday they are negotiating with Uganda to export 50 megawatts ( MW) of power to offset Uganda's crippling shortages.
  • Kenya enters power deal with Ethiopia
    June 15, 2006 - KBC

    The government has signed a power supply agreement with Ethiopia, a move expected to boost supply to the national grid. The signing follows three days of consultations between the two governments. Speaking during the signing ceremony, acting Energy Minister Henry Obwocha said the deal may eventually see a reduction of power prices with the completion of a high voltage transmission line to interconnect the national grids of the two countries.

    http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=36726
  • Kenya joins regional power supply plan
    May 18, 2006 - The Nation

    Kenya is among three countries set to benefit from a Sh 47.5 bn ($ 660 mm) electricity generation project.
    Kenya was working alongside Tanzania and Zambia on a joint interconnection project expected to help the countries access electricity from southern Africa, Energy assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri said. This is also expected to reduce electricity costs and eradicate shortages.

    http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nta62025.htm

  • New SADC move to end Dar's power crisis
    Mar 6, 2006 - The EastAfrican

    The Tanzania-Zambia Interconnect Project will intergrate Tanzania into the regional grid, giving Dar es Salaam the option of exporting its electricity surplus to Kenya.

    http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/06032006/News/Regional060320067.htm

  • Ethiopia and Kenya discuss power connection
    Mar 4, 2006

    Ethiopia said it has wrapped up a first round discussion with neighbouring Kenya to connect the two countries with power transmission lines. Sendeku Araya, public relations manager with the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), said the two countries signed an agreement following in-depth discussions between ministers of energy, power directors and professionals of both countries on utilization of power transmission lines.

    http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nta61481.htm
  • Select Transnational Electricity Projects Within Africa

    Congo-Democratic Republic of Congo-Zambia Inga Hydroelectric Interconnections
    Kenya-Uganda Owen Falls Hydroelectric Interconnection
    Benin-Ghana-Togo VRA/CEB interconnection

    http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/tbl5b.html
  • The West African Power Pool

    The West African Power Pool is an ambitious project initiated by ECOWAS Energy Ministers and championed by the ECOWAS Department of Infrastructure to provide a reliable and competitively-priced supply of energy in response to this long-acknowledged impediment to regional economic growth and competitiveness. The project also aims to increase the trade in energy amongst member states and to promote foreign investment in the sector. The WAPP is now an ECOWAS priority project for the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD

    http://www.usaid.gov/missions/warp/ecintegration/wapp

  • Three-nation electricity project to cost $ 350 mm
    Sep 15, 2005 - The Post

    The Zambia-Kenya-Tanzania electricity inter-connector project is expected to cost about $ 350 mm. According to preliminary information following the deliberations of the just ended joint meetings involving Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda, the $ 350 mm, approximately K 1.5 tn, project could be completed by 2009.

    http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cna53727.htm

  • Energy key to Africa's prosperity
     Challenges in West Africa's quest for electricity
    Jan 2005 - Africa Renewal, Vol.18 #4 (pg 6) - Itai Madamombe

    On the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, business plans are only as final as the next electricity outage permits. In July, food tins at the Prime Pak canning factory were positioned on the assembly line, ready to be sealed before export. Without warning, the machines came to a screeching halt, leaving entrepreneur Cyril Francis standing helplessly in the dark. Thirty per cent of the consignment spoiled.
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