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COMMENTARY
Fitch: Wind power pipeline up by almost 33% in six months 4
AIA Group divests from coal 6

POLICY
UN’s Espinosa stresses need for quick follow up on Glasgow goals 7

COAL GENERATION

Sendou coal-fired power project again feeding Senegal grid 8

GRID

AfDB funds Kamanyola-Bujumbura power line in Burundi 8
Eni, Sonangol to build Solenova 50-MW solar project in Angola 9

REGULATION

Uganda tops AfDB Electricity Regulatory Index for fourth consecutive year
10

GEOTHERMAL
Ormat earns high revenues from Kenya’s Olkaria wells 11

GAS GENERATION
Mozambique 450-MW gas-fired power plant secures $652mn in funds 12

SOLAR
South Korea investing $12.4mn in solar mini-grids in Nigeria 12
Ncondezi Energy sells Mozambique Green Power solar and battery project
for $1.3mn 13
EU’s €10mn SESA project to fund African tech and business models
launches 13

NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 14

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