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Liberia signs PPA with Ci Energies
to supply 27MW
LIBERIA LIBERIA Electricity Corporation (LEC) has “The supply of energy from Cote d’Ivoire
signed a three-year Power Purchase Agreement will significantly help stabilise our energy sup-
(PPA) with CI Energies of Côte d’Ivoire to supply ply during the dry season when we face major
27MW of electricity, Front Page Africa reports. energy deficits.”
Under the PPA, a long-term supply deal, Meanwhile, a Transmission Service Agree-
power will be transmitted through the CLSG ment was expected to be signed on October 25
Transmission line as of December 1. in Abidjan between LEC and Transco CLSG for
Also a party to the agreement is Compagnie the transmission of energy purchased from CI
Ivoirienne d’Electricité (CIE), a private com- Energies/CIE.
pany that operates and maintains, on behalf Liberia will soon commence the implementa-
of CI Energies, a vertically integrated business tion of a 20MW solar project and the expansion
combining the national transmission and distri- of the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant by 44MW
bution networks and hydro generation plants. via a partnership with the World Bank, accord-
The 1,350-km power transmission line, ing to Front Page Africa.
which carries 225kv, runs through the CLSG/ Additionally, WAPP, GOL and the World
Transco grid network connecting Liberia and Bank are developing plans to build a 112MW
Côte d’Ivoire, as well as Sierra Leone and Guinea. hydropower plant upstream of the St. Paul River.
“Today marks a major milestone in our effort Currently, Liberia’s energy generation portfolio
to create a regional energy market and intercon- is 70% renewable and 30% thermal based. The
nect our electricity networks,” Liberia’s Minister country aims to achieve an 80% renewal energy
of Mines and Energy, Gesler E. Murray, is quoted base by 2026, according to the report.
as saying.
Uganda, Tanzania sign MoU
on conversion of Namanve
TPP into gas production unit
UGANDA UGANDA’S government plans to convert the the following day that the power station would
Namanve thermal power plant (TPP) into an actually be turned into an LNG plant. She also
LNG production unit and has signed a mem- stated that LNG was the government’s preferred
orandum of understanding (MoU) with the option, as it generated fewer harmful emissions.
government of Tanzania on the project, Energy “Due to the clean energy transition, I thought
Minister Ruth Nankabirwa revealed. it wise to convert this 50-MW thermal power
“I will be unveiling the whole plan of the plant to cleaner energy, which is LNG ... LPG is
Namanve Thermal Power Plant, which uses not natural gas, as it still contains carbon in it,”
fossil fuel. I cannot keep quiet when we are con- she wrote.
verting it into clean energy using natural gas,” she The government’s move follows its reposses-
was quoted as saying by Business Daily. sion of the TPP, which had been managed by an
Ugandan press sources, including Business outside investor since 2007. Kampala entered
Daily, initially reported on October 24 that the into a 13-year build, own, operate and trans-
minister had announced that Kampala intended fer (BOOT) concession with Jacobsen Elektro
to convert the 50-MW TPP into a facility capable Norway) in 2007. After that concession expired
of turning out LPG, a light hydrocarbon fuel that in 2021, Kampala put the plant back under the
is also known as cooking gas. control of state-owned Uganda Electricity Gen-
However, Nankabirwa said in a Twitter post eration Co. Ltd (UEGC).
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