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COMMENTARY
Morocco’s gas and power woes 4
Coal emerges down, but not out, from Glasgow 6

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

IEA stresses efficiency improvement needed to reach net zero 8

ESKOM

South African business leaders back beseiged Eskom management after
power cuts 9
SA energy minister Mantashe says he is willing to take his coal fight to
court 10
Eskom fears saboteurs are at large at power plants 11

POLICY

Kenya to engage IPPs on energy costs 12

CARBON CREDITS
Projects in Africa retire over 63mn voluntary carbon credits 13

CLIMATE FINANCE

South Africa’s $8.5bn climate finance is stiill only an offer, not a deal 14

RENEWABLES
Dutch FMO: financing, contracting for Burkina Faso solar plants with
110MWp capacity finalised 15

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

French start-up Zembo secures $3.4mn investment into Uganda electric
motorcycle business 16

POWER

Kenya delays planned $5bn nuclear construction until 2036 17
Egypt’s El Sewedy Electric reports solid 9M21 results 17
Zimbabwe to import 400 MW of electricity from Mozambique 18
Zimbabwe negotiates $310mn loan with India toward repairing power
stations 18

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 19

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