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Since the lockdown in March, demand for electricity has dropped by 10 per cent. According to Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL), there has been a marginal drop in demand for electricity since the country went into lockdown in…
The British company Gilkes has recently completed the Ruo-Ndiza hydroelectric project. The project carried by Mulanje Renewable Energy injects 8.2 MW into the national grid. The Ruo-Ndiza hydroelectric project is definitively completed. Its second…
The current pandemic caused by the disease Covid-19 threatens the viability of many de-central energy actors directly and indirectly through economic impacts. In a survey of businesses and project developers supported by GET.invest’s Finance…
The national electricity grid system collapsed early Wednesday, but was restored shortly, leaving power generation at 2,900 megawatts afterward. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which manages the national grid system, on Wednesday morning…
The implementation of the proposed two-month free electricity supply to Nigerians is unlikely to materialise due to the structure of the electricity supply industry in the country. Sunday Oduntan the executive director in charge of research and…
Cameroon plans to construct a 400 kV electricity transmission line from Nachtigal hydroelectric plant to Bafoussam which will eventually connect to the neighboring Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was revealed by Gaston Eloundou Essomba, the…
The health crisis caused by Covid-19 overshadows a natural disaster that has been ongoing since the beginning of 2020 in East Africa. Heavy rains on Lake Victoria have left many families homeless in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The long and trying…
A mini-grid operator, JUMEME, has launched a COVID-19 Relief Programme to support the Tanzanian healthcare centres in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. With this programme, JUMEME will use its local solar-hybrid mini-grids to provide 10…
Zimbabwe’s Rio Energy Ltd., a unit of RioZim Ltd., will build a 2,100 megawatt thermal power plant with China Gezhouba Group Corp in northern Zimbabwe at a projected cost of $3 billion, Rio Energy said Monday. “CGGC will develop the project and…