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GL Africa Energy to build 250MW

power plant in Mozambique

KENYA GL Africa Energy has signed an agreement with project, 50MW of capacity should come online
Mozambique to finance, build and operate a within 16 months and the remaining 200MW is
250MW, liquefied natural gas-fuelled power to follow within 24 months. A special purpose
station in the country’s northern Nacala district. vehicle and GL Africa Energy subsidiary, GL
The $400mn project, due for completion by Energy Mocambique, will build and operate the
2023, is one of the largest energy infrastructure plant upon its completion.
projects seen in Mozambique in the past dec- GL Africa Energy said the domestically
ade. It also represents GL Africa Energy’s largest sourced LNG will come from Rovuma, a site
investment in a power plant to date. along Mozambique’s coast that is home to three
GL Africa Energy, a subsidiary of the Nairo- separate LNG developments.
bi-based Janus Continental Group, has existing The owner of the gas field was not disclosed,
operations in eight countries across the Great although TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil and Eni
Lakes and Southern Africa regions. It ambition are leading consortia to develop the offshore
is to generate 1,000 MW across the continent by Rovuma gas basin.™
2025.
In the first $90mn phase of the Mozambique

Husk Power Systems launches

solar hybrid minigrids in Nigeria

NIGERIA HUSK Power Systems, a US-based rural clean Husk Power said the minigrids will provide
energy services leader in Africa and Asia, has clean, reliable and affordable electricity to about
launched the first six of 500 planned solar hybrid 5,000 households and 500 businesses in six com-
minigrids in the Nigerian state of Nasarawa. munities accessing electricity for the first time.
The minigrids were launched in early The company forecasts a fleet of more than
November under the Nigerian Electrifica- 100 minigrids in Nigeria within the next 24
tion Project (NEP), an initiative funded by the months, growing to 500 minigrids by 2026.
World Bank and the African Development Bank The NEP saw its first solar minigrid installed
(AfDB), implemented by the Rural Electrifica- in 2019. Since then, some more than 350 private
tion Agency (REA). sector-led projects have been launched, poten-
Husk received financial support from Nige- tially providing electricity to 1.1mn, according
ria’s REA in September to develop seven hybrid to industry publication Microgrid Knowledge
solar minigrids in Nasarawa, as part of the NEP’s (minigrids can also be called “microgrids”.™
performance-based grant programme.

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