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…President tells countrymen ‘electricity is not luxury’ Mozambique has established a $19 million new electricity sub-station in the Namialo administrative post in the Northern Province of Nampula. The substation is financed by the…

…Overall plan is to produce 20% of electricity from renewable energy by 2022. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is funding a $85 million, 20MV solar power plant in the city of Red Sea Governorate of Upper Egypt to…

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has commenced doorstep delivery of meters to customer, tagged, mobile Meter Asset Provider (The MAP). AEDC’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Oyebode Fadipe, confirmed this to…

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, will lead a team of discussants to x-ray topical issues in oil and gas industry at the 2019 edition of the Association of Energy…

The Export-Import Bank of China and Export-Import Bank of India Zimbabwe have syndicated three separate loans of just over US$108.3 million for Zimbabwe to use for power generation projects and broadband expansion. …

Australian exploration and production company, Woodside Energy has awarded nine contracts to Houston oilfield service company, Halliburton to drill and complete a series of wells off the coast in West Africa. The contracts, according to a…

The North African country, Egypt has reached installed capacity of 55,000 Megawatts of electricity per day. The figure is about 3,000MW higher than what South Africa produces, going by Egypt’s own official figures. Experts…

Nigeria's first-ever hybrid solar power plant was commissioned at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi state. The plant with a capacity of 2.8 MW, was built as part of the Energising Education Programme (EEP). It is the first of…

Sahara Group, a leading international oil and gas conglomerate, has announced a decision to explore the energy sector of Angola, Africa’s second-biggest oil-producing country. Top officials of the group say a few regulatory reforms have…

The International Energy Agency has said that the noticeable economic slowdown and a ratcheting up of the U.S.-China trade war have caused global oil demand to grow at its slowest pace since the financial crisis of 2008. In its monthly…