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China’s CNOOC set to install

39MW power plant in Uganda

UGANDA THE Ugandan subsidiary of China National Off- ERA.
shore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has applied CNOOC Uganda Ltd plans to split the power
to install a 39.1MW gas to power project at its generation in two parts, with a CPF substation
Kingfisher oil field as the firm intensifies its generating 24MW and CPF load of 15MW.
investments in the East African nation’s extrac- Recently, CNOOC and its partners
tive industry. announced their Final Investment Decision
CNOOC Uganda Ltd officially sent its licence (FID) for the development of oil fields in Uganda
application to the Electricity Regulatory Author- which followed the completion of agreements
ity (ERA) of Uganda for approval before can between the government of Uganda and Tan-
start the implementation phase, The Observer zania for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
reports. (EACOP) project.
The regulator received CNOOC’s application CNOOC Uganda is the largest oil and gas
on March 16, from which date the public was investor in Uganda’s energy sector and owns
given 30 days to comment and file any possible one-third interests in each of Exploration Areas
objections. (EA) EA1/1A, EA2 and Kingfisher. It is also in a
The company’s power plan is critical as far as partnership with Total E&P Uganda (33.3%) and
its 40,000 barrels of oil per day production tar- Tullow Oil (33.3%).™
get at Kingfisher is concerned, according to the

Eskom offers land, connectivity

for renewable energy

SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH African power utility Eskom has issued will be for a minimum 20 years. Eskom will own
a request for proposal (RfP) for leasing parcels of the land for the duration of the lease and provide
its land in Mpumalanga Province to independ- connection up to the nearest network point.
ent power producers (IPPs) for new renewable Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act of
generation capacity. 2006, as gazetted by the Department of Mineral
The land bank offer is intended to encourage Resources and Energy in August 2021, permits
investment in renewable energy infrastructure independent power generators to wheel elec-
and provide impetus to resolve South Africa’s tricity through the transmission grid, subject to
electricity crisis. wheeling charges and connection agreements
The process is based on auctioning suita- with the relevant transmission or distribution
ble land at or near power stations to develop licence holders.
renewable electricity generation sites, with the “Investors will be able to enter into bilateral
evaluation process favouring quick delivery of agreements with customers, on terms that they
additional generation capacity to the system. agree, while Eskom will provide the transmis-
“This initiative is intended to allow investors sion infrastructure to evacuate the electricity.
accelerated access to our existing grid, and to This arrangement is a precursor of the electricity
enable investment in renewable energy next to market that is enabled by the legally separated
our coal-fired power stations, to demonstrate transmission company,” De Ruyter said.
our commitment to be part of the Just Energy The initiative is meant to provide relief to
Transition,” Eskom chief executive André de South Africa’s constrained electricity system in
Ruyter said in an April 12 press release. as short a time as possible, increasing opportuni-
Maximum capacity per project will be capped ties for maintenance on the old network, reduc-
at 100 MW to make use of the upper limit for ing load-shedding and the usage of open cycle
embedded and own generation, and the lease gas turbines.™

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