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COMMENTARY

Green investment must triple to save climate 4

Clearer ESG rules needed in booming green bond market 6

CONSTRUCTION

ACWA Power to build desalination plant in Senegal 8
CBEA, ENGIE to build $60mn portfolio of mini-grids in Nigeria 8

GREEN BONDS
Nairobi plans to float green bond to finance mass transit system 9

BATTERIES
Firering announces successful drilling at lithium-tantalum project in Cote
d’Ivoire 9

COAL GENERATION
India lends $310mn to Zimbabwe to rehabilite coal plants 10

GAS GENERATION

SA’s Kinetiko strikes gas at well near power plant 11

RURAL ELECTRIFICATOIN

Rwandan President raises $800mn to support Zimbabwe’s rural
electrification project 12

RENEWABLES

Ghana aims to leverage lithium discovery in renewables drive 13
Tharisa to invest $391mn in Karo Platinum mine in Zimbabwe 14

Gold Field completes 50MW Khanyisa solar plant at
South Deep mine in Gauteng 15

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP 16

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