ELECTRICITY

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°624 - 17/03/2010 CONGO-K World Bank Ticked Off In constantly putting back renovation of the Inga dam, the World Bank has finally stirred the ire of the Congolese authorities. (...)  [310 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°624 - 17/03/2010 KENYA New Call on Emergency Plants While waiting for the rainy season that will fill the reservoirs of dams over the coming two months Kenya has once again had to resort to extending contracts with Aggreko. (...)  [260 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°624 - 17/03/2010 MOZAMBIQUE Redes Energeticsas buys into HCB According to our sources, Mozambique’s stake in Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) is shortly to rise from 85 to 92. (...)  [276 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 MAURITANIA New Plants by Year’s End According to our sources, executives from Empower Ltd., an affiliate of Britain’s Globeleq, signed a contract with Mauritanian prime minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdhaf on Feb. (...)  [293 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 AFRICA Symbion On The Offensive The keynote speech at the annual Power Indaba conference in Durban Feb. 22 was given by Joe Wilson, former Africa adviser to Bill Clinton. (...)  [267 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°623 - 03/03/2010 CENTRAL AFRICA Westcor Stillborn? Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the Western Corridor joint venture company Westcor which was to develop an interconnection project between the future Inga 3 power station (4,320 MW) and four Southern African countries - Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa - will be wound up between now and June. (...)  [266 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 RWANDA/CONGO-K France To Push for Ruzizi 3 French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s stopover in Kigali in late February to mark the resumption of diplomatic relations (broken between 2006 and 2009) with Rwanda will provide France with an occasion to propose several energy projects. (...)  [310 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 CONGO-K Inga 2 Restored but Flawed According to our sources, an engineering consultant from the Italian firm Franco Tosi Meccanica (FTM) which is working on the G23 turbine at Inga 2 warned SNEL at the end of last year that vibrations caused by the turbine could cause the dam to collapse. (...)  [211 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°622 - 17/02/2010 ZIMBABWE/ZAMBIA Fresh Start for Batok Dam? According to our sources, a meeting of Zambian and Zimbabwean technical experts in Lusaka on Feb. 5 failed to reach an agreement on the thorny political and financial problems surrounding the 1,600 MW Batok dam. (...)  [276 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Taiwan Pampers Last Allies According to our sources, Sao Tome’s power utility Empresa de Agua e Electricidade (EMAE) will have a new, 8. (...)  [268 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 BURUNDI Miners Look After Themselves Africa Energy Intelligence understands that the South African mining company Samancor, run by Croatian businessman Danko Konch, has applied to Burundi’s mines and energy ministry for a green light to build a hydro electric dam with a capacity of between 40 and 50 MW. (...)  [247 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°621 - 03/02/2010 MOZAMBIQUE Mphanda & Benga Firmly on Track The negotiation of supply and sale contracts is expected to wind up later this year in step with a timetable set by Hidroelectrica de Mphanda Nkuwa which is building the hydro power station of the same name. (...)  [244 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 ANGOLA Export Potential in Sight Angola’s energy minister has so many electricity projects in various stages of development at the moment that the end result could well be a surplus allowing for the country to export power. (...)  [322 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 TANZANIA Blackout in Zanzibar At the very height of its holiday season, the Zanzibar archipelago was plunged into darkness when the lone power cable linking the Kilomeni power station in Dar es Salaam on the mainland to the island of Unguja broke down in December. (...)  [285 words]  [$5.4] AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE  n°620 - 20/01/2010 CONGO-K Nseke to Come on Line in Summer According to our sources, the first of four 65 MW generators of the Nseke power station in Katanga will begin operating in August. (...)  [250 words]  [$5.4]   AEI  n°624 - 17/03/2010 CONGO-K New Transformer for the Capital Congo-K's Societe Nationale d’Electricite (SNEL) has just laid out USD 2 million (...)  [84 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°623 - 03/03/2010 SOUTH AFRICA Rates to Rise by 25% for Three Years The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) agreed on Feb. (...)  [90 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°622 - 17/02/2010 ETHIOPIA Gilbel Gibe 2 Already Stalled The 420 MW Gilgel Gibe 2 dam that was inaugurated with much fanfare by Ethiopian (...)  [105 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°621 - 03/02/2010 CONGO-K Legislators in Push to Help SNEL Collect Unpaid Bills The Congo-K parliament's economic and financial committee has called on the government (...)  [109 words]  [$1.8] AEI  n°620 - 20/01/2010 ETHIOPIA Boost to Export Potential Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi and Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, (...)  [60 words]  [$1.8]