Plans are underway for Zimbabwe’s first solar testing laboratory as the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has begun the process of tendering for the equipment required, according to Chief Executive Engineer …

Senegal has already started construction work on a major solar project in Sub-Saharan Africa with the 20MW Senergy 2 project in Bokhol. The US$28 million project was developed by GreenWish …

Four international bidders from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America have come together to develop phase II of the Bumbuna hydropower project in Joule Africa. The project is estimated to …

Vehicle and asset finance group WesBank and sister company First National Bank (FNB) have announced US$ 4.4m scheme to replace the shade-net carports at its joint offices in Fairland, Johannesburg, …

South Africa has established a gas industrialisation unit for importing LNG to use as fuel for power generation. This move is aimed at reducing South Africa’s dependence on coal-fired power, …

USTDA and Zarara Oil & Gas Limited have entered a US$996,600 grant agreement to evaluate the technical, economic and environmental aspects of the proposed Lamu gas-to-power project on Pate Island, …

The Tanzanian minister for energy and minerals, Sospeter Muhongo, has announced that the government will invest at least US$30bn for the construction of a gas processing plant in Lindi region. …

Construction of a cooking oil plant in Zimbabwe has recently been completed by a South African company, Willowton with production projected to begin in November this year. The news was …

Tullow Oil has reported that it expects the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) setting out a structure for the Government of Kenya and the Kenya Joint Venture Partners (Maersk Oil, Africa …

Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to award the construction of the crude oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga to multiple contractors in a bid to speed up the project. In …