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POLICY

Zimbabwe’s president visits Mozambique, Zambia to rescue power
import contracts 4

SA government to assume part of Eskom’s debt 5

INVESTMENT
US investors seek opportunities to invest

in South Africa’s green economy 6
Cape Town-based AIIM secures two investment
commitments for new infrastructure development fund 7

HYDRO

Zambia’s president commissions $150mn
Chinese-funded water supply project 8

PROTESTS

Electricity protests shut down Tembisa township in SA 9

GRID

Uganda to secure $600mn loan from World
Bank for electricity connectivity project 10

EMISSIONS

Babcock & Wilcox environmental unit signs $18mn Africa deal 11
Angola could save 275mn litres of diesel
per year through energy transition 11

TRADING

Kenya, Ethiopia sign 25-year power purchase agreement 12
Zimbabwe to import 250MW from Zambia,
Mozambique to ease power crisis 13

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 14

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