Energy in East Africa

  • uganda Refutes Power Import Claims By Kenya

    KENYA, 2015/10/09 Barely three days after Kenya power regulators said they have doubled their power exports to Uganda, a senior official from ministry of Energy has refuted the claims. On Sunday the Daily Monitor sister newspaper Business Daily reported that Kenya had since more than doubled its electricity sales to Uganda. In the report, it was stated that a total of 26.56 million Kilowatt-hours (kWh) were being exported to Uganda and Tanzania over the last 12 months up from 12.63 million kWh indicating a 110.2 per cent growth. In an interview with ministry of Energy Permanent Secretary Kabagambe Kaliisa, it emerged that there has never been such a commercial transaction between the two neighbouring countries. He said: "There are no direct commercial power exports from Kenya to Uganda."

  • China grants loan to Mozambique for power transmission line

    CHINA, 2015/07/23 China will grant a loan of US$400 million to Mozambique, the all outstanding for the construction of a second power line for energy transmission from the centre to the north of the country, a government spokesman said Tuesday in Maputo. Mouzinho Saide, who is as well Mozambique’s deputy health minister, said next a Cabinet conference that the US$400 million loan had been secured but according to daily newspaper Notícias, he did not mention either the date on which the loan will be granted or its conditions. At the conference the government of Mozambique analysed ratified, part other things, the loan agreement concluded on 11 June, by which the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) offered to provide US$200 million dollars for the transmission line that will link Chimuara, in Zambézia province, and Nacala, in Nampula province, over a route of just over 600 kilometres.

  • Mozambique’s port of Nacala, Mozambique to start exporting coal

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2015/07/21 The new Nacala-a-Velha coal terminal, in Mozambique’s Nampula province, has received 50 tons of coal, and this is the initial time coal will be exported from this port, said the director of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor. This corridor includes a 900-kilometre railway between Moatize and Nacala-a-Velha, crossing through part of Malawi, costing an estimated US$4.4 billion and is the result of a partnership between Brazilian group Vale and Mozambican national port and railway company CFM. José Ottoni, director of the Nacala Integrated Logistics Corridor, said the Interior Minister Jaime Basilio Monteiro, visiting Nampula province, said legal procedures were underway to bring the initial ship to Nacala, because the vessel is licensed to load from the port of Beira.

  • Dam in Mozambique produces more electricity in the 2nd quarter

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2015/07/19 The production of electricity in Mozambique by the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam in the second quarter totalled 4,245 gigawatts hours (Gwh), exceeding by 6 % the target set of 4,002 Gwh, Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) said in a statement. HCB as well said the good performance of generating and power transmission equipment as a result of implementing the annual maintenance plans had as well contributed to the better-than-expected production level.

  • Lamu MCAs Approve Major Power Plant , Kenya

    KENYA, 2015/07/11 Lamu ward representatives have unanimously approved a 980MW coal-fired power plant, the major in East Africa. The Sh187 billion project approved on Wednesday will be built by Amu Power, a consortium of Gulf Energy and Centum Investment . It will be built in Kwasasi, Lamu West. The project generated great controversy over its health and environmental impact. The motion for approval was presented by Witu MCA Mohamed Athman on June 30.

  • Ethiopia: First Geothermal Project Discharges Steam.

    ETHIOPIA, 2015/07/11 The project was launched in 2010 with financial assistance from the Government of Japan and the World Bank. Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu and Japanese Ambassador Kazuhiro Suzuki launched the initial geothermal well drilled and successfully discharged steam as part of the Aluto Langano Geothermal Project supported by the Japanese government. According to Japanese Embassy Press release, the project was launched in 2010 with financial assistance of the Government of Japan and the World Bank, and has been implemented jointly by the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), the Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE) and Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) and West Japan Engineering Consultants (West JEC).

  • Mozambique’s energy resources with a high potential

    MAPUTO CITY, 2015/05/14 Opportunities for exploring natural gas and other energy resources will continue to appear in Mozambique and the growing interest in energy seems to still “have a lot to give,” according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. In its new statement on Mozambique, the EIU noted that the 12 new blocks for natural gas exploration that the authorities plan to auction off at the beginning of next year are adjacent to those in which “world class” discoveries were made estimated to total 130 trillion cubic feet. This round, it said, was an extra significant step in the development of the new and prolific Mozambican energy sector and the blocks on offer may contain new and larger resources.

  • The 11,488 solar systems from China were bought for 2.8 million dollars

    CHINA, 2015/01/06 The Ministry of Water, Irrigation & Energy (MoWIE), through its Rural Electrification Fund (REF), has procured 11,488 solar home systems (SHS) from the Chinese Company Cecep Oasis New Energy Company, which are expected to be delivered within three weeks. The IDA provided the financing, a total of 2.8 million dollars, for the purchase of the systems which will be distributed to 11, 488 households that are members of the 207 cooperatives in the regions. At different times before the Ministry had procured and distributed institutional solar systems, says YisehakSeboka, the Rural Electrification Fund (REF) Coordinator at the Ministry. The initial was in 2006 at the same time as 200 health posts received these systems.

  • Mozambique: All District Capitals Electrified By End of Year

    MAPUTO CITY, 2014/12/14 The capitals of all of Mozambique's 128 districts will be electrified by 31 December, according to Energy Minister Salvador Namburete, cited in Friday's issue of the Maputo daily “Noticias”. He was speaking in Macossa, in the central province of Manica, on Thursday, during the ceremony at which this district capital was connected to the national grid. An identical ceremony took place before in the day in Nhacolo, capital of Tambara district. Namburete said that only four districts remain to be electrified - Massangena and Chicualacuala in Gaza province, Maringue in Sofala and Nipepe in Niassa. Work is under way in all four of these small towns, and it is expected that the electrification projects will be completed by the end of the year.

  • Kenya Power to Sell 30mw Power to Rwanda

    KENYA, 2014/12/11 Kenya Power has entered into an agreement to sell 30MW of power to Rwanda in July 2015. The sale will boost Rwanda's supply that is hampered by generation capacity shortage, MD and CEO Ben Chumo said on Tuesday. The 30MW will be transmitted through Uganda's infrastructure next it reinforces its transmission grids alongside Kenya. Kenya Power, Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (UETCL) and Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG) have completed negotiations and established an interconnected transmission to facilitate the trade.
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