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COMMENTARY
Wind sector posts strong year, but Africa falls behind 4

CLIMATE CHNAGE

Poorer cities the most exposed to climate change 6

ECONOMY
Moody’s lead analyst for South Africa has high hopes for economy 7

POLICY

Eskom continues load-shedding, blames labour protests 8
Ghana has cheapest household electricity costs in West Africa 8

INVESTMENT
BII to invest $200mn in African hydro Norfund, Scatec 9
UK pledges to guarantee $2bn of AfDB debt 9

EEGF invests in clean energy financier Candi Solar of 10
Bad weather sees 500MW Sudan power plant go offline 10
Angola’s president pledges big infrastructure investments in election
campaign 11

GRID
African Development Fund approves $2mn grant for ECOWAS states 12

GAS GENERATION
Côte d’Ivoire adds 180MW of gas capacity to meet rising demand 13

RENEWABLES

Kenya, Eswatini to champion Commonwealth geothermal 14
Tunisia’s €500,000 floating PV plant opens 15
MIGA suppports Virtuo Finance’s solar park in Egypt 15
Morocco reaches 1.9 GW of wind and solar 16

BATTERIES
Zimbabwe power shortage scuppers Chinese lithium plans 17

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 18

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