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POLICY
Eskom could face immediate closure of power plants to meet pollution
standards 4
INVESTMENT
World Bank to fund $150mn power recovery plan for Somalia 5
POWER CUTS
Zimbabwe power crisis worsens 6
GREEN BONDS
Nigeria’s Green Bond market value grows to NGN55.52bn 7
NET ZERO
Eni, Cote d’Ivoire leaders hold advanced talks
on ‘net-zero’ development of Baleine discovery 8
Sasol sees drop in production amid coal shortage 9
PRICING
Kenya’s cost of electricity to drop by 15% before end of 2021 9
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Uber partners with Kenya’s Opibus to deploy
3,000 electric motorcycles 10
RENEWABLES
South Africa’sn Sedibelo eyes revolutionary green tech 11
Rio Tinto launches construction of Madagascar mine renewable project 12
Tunisia’s renewable energy to contribute 22%
to overall production by 2025 – ANME 12
Agilitee Africa set to build electric car assembly plant in Ghana 13
Kenya’s Olkaria 1 Unit 6 geothermal plant
set to start operating in 2022 13
NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 14
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