Kenya court puts temporary halt three small hydro projects.
The Kenya Tea Development Agency Ltd. has been stopped from awarding a tender for the construction of three small hydropower projects pending a decision from the African country’s High Court. KTDA had...
View ArticleKPLC insists electricity bills won’t jump on biting drought.
Continued falling water levels in hydroelectric dams will not result in higher electricity bills for households and businesses, Kenya Power insisted yesterday. Acting chief executive Ken Tarus said the...
View ArticleBettering the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement...
Can South Africa’s highly successful Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) be made even better? One man certainly felt it could be if changes were made to the...
View ArticleZimbabwe signs deal with Salini Impregilo for Tokwe-Mukosi powerhouse...
The Zimbabwean government has signed a US$7 million deal with contractor Salini Impregilo to complete civil works on the 15-MW Tokwe-Mukosi hydropower plant. The Italian firm has been performing work...
View ArticleBatoka gorge hydro-electric power project implementation process launched.
Government on Wednesday, 22nd March, launched the 4 billion United States Dollar Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme implementation process with a call to the media to help market the project to...
View ArticleMDH South Africa plans to build $1.26bn hydroelectric project in Zambia.
MDH South Africa has proposed its plan to build a dam and 235MW hydroelectric power station in Zambia to help address power shortages in the country. The South African firm has submitted a proposal to...
View ArticleZambia Zimbabwe gets praise over Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Power Project.
Ruling Patriotic Front (PF) Southern Province Vice Information and Publicity Secretary Trymore Mwenda has highly praised the Governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe for launching the Batoka Gorge...
View ArticleREA to resume construction of Kasanjiku mini Hydro Power station in Mwinilunga.
Rural Electrification Authority (REA) Corporate Affairs Manager Justine Mukosa has said works on Kasanjiku Mini Hydro Power Station in Chief Ntambu’s area in Mwinilunga District in Northern Province...
View ArticleHydroChina applies for permit to construct 120-MW St. Paul hydropower plant...
Aloysius K. Kotee, of the Liberian Environmental Protection Agency, announced last week Beijing-based HydroChina Corp. has applied for a permit to construct and operate the 120-MW St. Paul...
View Article$14m Lake Mutirikwi hydro-power plant for Masvingo.
THE Great Zimbabwe Hydro Power Company has started a feasibility study on the five megawatt mini-hydro power plant to cost $14 million at Lake Mutirikwi. The proposed project is envisaged to augment...
View ArticleDominovas Energy acquires rights to build Angolan hydro plant.
Dominovas Energy Corporation is to finance, build and operate an 18MW hydropower plant in northwestern Angola after securing exclusive rights for the project from the country’s government. The project...
View ArticleThe Nile Basin In Transformation: research uptake and what’s at stake?
The Nile basin territories have witnessed huge transformation since prehistoric era and continue to be subjected to enormous transformations. The transformations along the Nile basin territory...
View ArticleProgress Well installed in Isimba Hydro Power Project in Uganda.
The Installation of Hydro Mechanical (HM) and Electro Mechanical (EM) Progress Well in Isimba Hydro Power Project in Uganda. If the hydropower plant is compared to a person, then the dam will be the...
View ArticleWork starts on Tokwe Mukosi mini-hydro in Zimbabwe.
Work on the $20 million mini-hydro power project at Tokwe-Mukosi Dam has started, with Italian contractor Salini Impregilo in the process of building a power house for the electricity generation plant....
View ArticleABB wins $30 million order for HVDC power link upgrade in Africa.
ABB has won an order worth more than $30 million from Société nationale d’électricité (SNEL), the national electricity company of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for a partial upgrade of the...
View ArticleOperations begin at 5-MW Siti 1 small hydropower plant in Uganda.
The 5-MW Siti 1 small hydropower plant, on the Siti River in Uganda, has begun operations. This run-of-river project was developed with financing from the Netherlands Development Finance Co. (FMO) and...
View Article‘Africa uses only 10 percent of hydropower potential’
3-day World Hydropower Congress begins in Addis Ababa Only 10 percent of Africa’s hydropower potential has been tapped, according to an energy expert. At the opening Tuesday of a three-day World...
View ArticleG-res tool allows hydro industry to report on carbon footprint.
A new tool that enables the hydropower sector to report on its carbon footprint for the first time has been launched at the 2017 World Hydropower Congress in Addis Ababa. Developed by the International...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s local hydropower plants receive international recognition.
South Africa-based independent power producer Renewable Energy Holdings (REH) has received the Monsonyi award for excellence in hydropower from the International Hydropower Association (IHA). The award...
View ArticleGE plans 2GW hydroelectric power in Nigeria.
The General Electric is planning to install hydroelectric plants that will generate additional two gigawatts of electricity in the country by 2030 in view the the nation’s growing power demands. This...
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