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Accugas begins gas sales to
FPIL’s power plant in Nigeria
ZAMBIA SAVANNAH Energy PLC has through its 80% The FIPL Trans Amadi power plant has a
indirectly owned subsidiary Accugas Limited power generation capacity of 136MW, but the
begun gas sales to First Independent Power’s capacity had recently been limited due to gas
(FIPL) Trans Amadi power plant in Port-Har- availability issues from its primary supplier.
court, Nigeria, the British independent energy Savannah began gas supply to the Trans
company said on June 22. Amadi power plant on June 19, which has
FIPL is an affiliate company of the Sahara allowed for the resumption of power generation
Group, a leading international energy and infra- and evacuation to Nigeria’s national grid.
structure conglomerate with operations in over “I am very pleased to have commenced gas
42 countries across Africa, the Middle East, sales to the Trans Amadi power station. I am
Europe and Asia. proud of the key role we are increasingly play-
In April, AIM-listed Savannah executed an ing in providing power to Nigeria at this time,”
addendum to its gas sales agreement with FIPL, Savannah Energy chief executive Andrew Knott
allowing the latter company to boost the quan- said.
tity of gas purchased to up to 65mn ft3/day from Apart from Nigeria, Savannah is also devel-
35mn ft3/day to allow supply to both its Trans oping energy projects in Cameroon, Chad and
Amadi and Eleme power plants, as well as the Niger.
Afam power plant.
Mozambique to launch tender for
60 MW of solar projects
ZAMBIA MOZAMBIQUE’S energy regulatory author- solar PV plant awarded in April to TotalEnergies
ity (ARENE) is expected to launch a tender to subsidiary Total Eren in Dondo, Sofala prov-
develop 60 MW of solar projects at two centres ince,” Macao News writes.
in the country by the end of July, Macao News Close to the proposed site at Manje, Tete
reports. province, London-listed power Development
The sites are in Lichinga, in Niassa province Company Ncondezi Energy is considering
in the northwest and Manje, in western Tete another PV plant and battery storage facility.
province. The company is building a 300-MW coal-
ARENE chairman Paulo da Graça said the fired power plant at the same site in partnership
tender will award at least 30 MW per location with China Machinery Engineering, but the con-
and will be included in the country’s renewable sortium has been debt restructuring for several
energy auction programme (PROLER), run by months on a $750,000 working capital facility.
the regular and the state utility Electricidade do London-based firm Solarcentury Africa is
Mozambique. expected to announce a 100-MW PV project
“At present, 90MW is pending development in Mozambique shortly, Solarcentury’s head of
under the PROLER programme, comprising commercial finance Mark Crossley announced
a 50MW photovoltaic (PV) plant in Lichinga last month, CLBrief reported.
awarded to a consortium made up of Dutch Like most countries in Africa, Mozambique
independent power producer Gigawatt Global has vast solar energy potential which is largely
and the Anglican Church of Niassa; and a 40MW underutilised.
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