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POLICY
Egypt to cut electricity consumption from mid-August 4 Beacon Power Services raises $2.7mn for African grids 4 Zimbabwe signs PPA with SA’s Matshela Energy 5
ESKOM
Eskom withdraws services after worker threatened at gunpoint 6
TARIFFS
Low tariffs hitting Malawi electricity supplier 7
HYDRO
Zimbabwe, Zambia defaults push up cost of Batoka Gorge project 8
Second turbine at GERD goes online, despite outcry from Egypt, Sudan 9 GAS GENERATION
SA completes due diligence on investment in Renergen project 10 Karpowership loses appeal to quash South
African environmental ruling 11
BATTERY STORAGE
Eskom picks Korean, Chinese manufacturers for $480mn battery storage project 12
RENEWABLES
ReNew Power to launch $8bn green hydrogen project in Egypt 13
Masdar to develop 2GW of renewables in Tanzania 14 NUCLEAR
Work underway at Egypt’s El Dabaa NPP 15 NEWSBASE’S POWER ROUNDUP GLOBAL 16
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