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Amewu, together with o cials of Ghana Gas, ENI and Amandi inspected ongoing works on the about 11-km gas pipeline to transmit gas from the Aboadze ermal enclave to the Naval Base where the Karpowership sits.
Amewu who then continued to the Karpowership barge to see the progress of work expressed satisfaction with work done so far.
“ is project is about ve di erent phases, thus the pipeline construction, the construction of the transmission lines, the Transmission, Regulatory and Metering Station (TRMS) and the Onshore Terminal Station (OTS) and then the Karpowership installation.”
NUCLEAR
SA to target affordable nuclear power
South Africa will not adopt a “big bang” approach to building new nuclear power capacity but instead add capacity in an a ordable way, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said, Reuters reported.
Former South African president Jacob Zuma championed a massive nuclear expansion project with Russia, but his successor Cyril Ramaphosa put those plans on hold.
“It comes back to a resolution we took as a government: not going big bang into nuclear, but going at a pace and price that the country can a ord. ... Go modular, go at a pace and price that the country can a ord,” Mantashe said.
“ e fact that we suspected corruption
(in the previously oated Russia deal) doesn’t mean that nuclear is irrelevant for the country in 2019.”
Mantashe would not give a timeline for any new nuclear capacity, saying the government’s energy plan would need to be approved rst.
e Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) has been held up for months by discussions with business and trade union interests, but the minister said he hoped the IRP would be taken to cabinet for approval in the next two to three weeks.
Mantashe said the IRP contained provision for “modular nuclear technology,” saying nuclear would compete with other power sources to replace energy capacity which will be decommissioned in the medium to long term.
solar panels, capturing the sun from both sides of the panels to increase the total clean energy generation.
In April 2017, Scatec Solar with its partners KLP Norfund and Africa 50 signed a 25-year Power Purchase Agreements with the Government of Egypt for delivery of electricity from six solar plants, equal in size, totalling 390 MW.
e estimated annual 870 GWh of electricity produced from Scatec Solar’s plants in Benban will avoid about 350,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions annually and provide energy for more than 420,000 Egyptian households. SCATEC SOLAR
AfDb welcomes $20mn
funding from Climate
Investment Funds
e Clean Technology Fund (CTF) one
of two multi-donor trust funds within the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has approved $20mn for the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI), a facility sponsored by the African Development Bank to provide sustainable nancing for small-scale renewables in Africa.
FEI is a $500mn nancing platform whose objective is to catalyze nancial support
for innovative energy access solutions.
FEI On-grid, a targeted USD 400mn fund, supports improved energy access through the development of small-scale renewable energy generation and mini-grids across Africa, while the O -Grid Energy Access Fund (OGEF), a targeted USD 100mn fund, supports o -grid energy distribution companies and boosts their long-term capacity to access capital markets at scale.
e CTF investment, composed of a $4mn junior equity tranche and a $16mn
RENEWABLES
Scatec Solar reaches
commercial operation for
its fourth 65 MW power
plant in Egypt
Norway’s Scatec Solar and its partners have grid connected and reached commercial operation for another 65 MW of the 390 MW Benban project in Egypt.
Scatec Solar now has 260 MW in operation in Egypt and expects to have completed the remaining two plants out of six over the next couple of months.
e Benban solar power plant will be Scatec Solar’s largest project in operation and is the company’s rst solar plant with bi-facial
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