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COMMENTARY
Climate change, war in Ukraine and rising prices
create perfect storm threatening global food security 4

Renewables set for record growth in 2022, but 2023 is not so rosy 7

POLICY

Kenya’s Energy Ministry validates energy

efficiency and conservation plan 10
Eskom boss warns that only new capacity

in South Africa can prevent load-shedding 11

South Africa power cuts seen rising to new level in 2022 12

NUCLEAR

Uganda gets greenlight to construct nuclear power plant 13
CrossBoundary sees hybrid surge 13

COAL

Botswana plans to supply Europe with 1mn tpy of coal 14

Botswana begins coal exports through Maputo 14

RENEWABLES

Off-grid solar struggles to recover from pandemic 15
South Africa’s ‘first of its kind’ solar plant commissioned at gold mine 16

Morocco targets 12GW output of renewable energies by 2030 17

Africa GreenCo raises $15.5mn to launch trading 17

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 18

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