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COMMENTARY
Last chance to cut emissions and save the climate: UN report 4
TRANSMISSION
AfDB provides $2.5mn to boost Africa’s regional grids 6
GAS-FIRED GENERATION
Sonatrach says Skikda LNG plant has resumed production 7
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION
South Africa raises distributed generation limit to 100 MW 8
COAL-FIRED GENERATION
Eskom suffers explosion at Medupi 9
POWER CUTS
Zambia experiences major power cuts 9
RENEWABLES
Kenya pays $163mn in penalties because of
delays at Lake Turkana wind farm 10 Mozambique commissions more solar mini-grids 11 West Africa’s MyJouleBox raises $2mn to fund expansion 12
NEWS IN BRIEF 13 NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 15
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