South African energy trader NOA has signed a renewable power supply agreement with Siyanda Bakgatla Platinum Mine (SPBM) to deliver 288 GWh of green electricity annually through a wheeling arrangement.
Consulting engineering firm Noubeg Power & Co has been appointed to prepare a 40-MW wind power project in Zambia under the country's Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP).
South Africa's National Energy Regulator (NERSA) has approved generation licences for four solar photovoltaic projects with a combined contracted capacity of 890 MW under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) Bid Window 7.3, it said.
Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) has completed turbine installation at a trio of wind farms, each with a capacity of 140 MW, in South Africa for its customer, Anthem.
Nigeria is deploying 39 mini-grids with a combined capacity of almost 27 MW across the state of Adamawa under the Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES) programme.
The Ivorian government on Friday inaugurated the 52-MWp Ferke solar farm in Ferkessedougou, northern Cote d’Ivoire, unveiling the second such plant in the country, it said.