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AFRICA
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AllAfrica.com - Washington, USA
January 8, 2007
Electricity Control Board (ECB) Chief Siseho Simasiku has
hit back in a bid to clear his name after he was implicated as a key person
responsible for causing delays in a wind-power project by allegedly demanding
millions of dollars in commission before the project would be granted a power
purchase agreement (PPA). The 10 per cent commission he allegedly demanded
amounted to N$210 million dollars.
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AllAfrica.com
December 20, 2007
Electricity generated from wind power is now a reality in
Kenya, even as KenGen, the national main electricity generator, grapples with
boardroom matters on how such energy could be tapped at a commercial level.
According to KenGen's managing director Eddy Njoroge, the company is
redeveloping its wind energy generator at Ngong Hills, which will produce about
six mega watts. However, the company has not given a timeline for its
completion.
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AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
December 11, 2007
UGANDA's deprived energy sector is on the verge of taking
off after another company expressed interest in generating power from renewable
sources such as small rivers, agricultural waste, wind, and solar. Okhela Renewable Energy Corporation, a South
African energy company, is negotiating with the government for a power purchase agreement.
In the first phase of the project the company plans to invest 3.5 million euros
(Shs6 billion) to produce 10MW of electricity from domestic wastes before
exploring other alternatives such as solar and wind energy.
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Business Day - Nigeria
November 26, 2007
The Nigerian Federal Government has started the process of
harnessing power from wind to generate electricity by establishing a pilot
project in Katsina State. Sam Gekpe,
managing director of a rural electrification agency did not state the amount of
electricity the project would generate. However, Gekpe said a recent World Bank
report indicated that about 2-billion people in the world had no access to
electrical energy and most of them "live in isolated rural areas in
developing countries."
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AllAfrica.com
October 17, 2007
The Electricity Control Board (ECB) has approved two
licences that would enable the applicants to generate much-needed power in
Namibia. For wind energy, the initial
proposal was to come up with 92 megawatts but because of the wind capacity at
Lüderitz, the company may start with 40 megawatts and expand at a later stage. The construction of infrastructure for both
companies is likely to start by December this year or early next year.
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Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
September 18, 2007
Electrawinds NV, a Belgian privately owned company will soon
roll out a 120-million Euro, 100 mega watt wind energy plants in the coastal
parts of Namibia, becoming the second privately owned firm to venture into this
sector. Electrawinds NV, which has
submitted an application for a license to Namibia's energy regulator,
Electricity Control Board (ECB), said it intends to initially set up two 50 MW
each wind farms in Luderitz and Walvis Bay.
The electricity generated would be sold to national power utility,
NamPower.
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Engineering News - South Africa
September 14, 2007
State power utility Eskom could start building a 100-MW wind power plant, on
the West Coast of South Africa, as early as mid-2008, to be operational by the
beginning of 2010, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. Eskom
communications project manager for new build Annamarie Murray said that the
firm was expecting a record of decision from the Department of Environmental
Affairs and Tourism by the middle of next year, after which construction on the
plant, to be built opposite Koekenaap, would start.
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Sunday Times - Johannesburg, South Africa
June 14, 2007
A Johannesburg-based German engineering company, however, is
set to commercialise revolutionary wind-power technology in South Africa, which
it suggests may be a viable commercial scale alternative to dirty energy.
Aquaculture Alternative Energies, headed by Peter Grossmann, secured the
licence agreement for the technology of hemispheric design that was developed
by German engineer Herbert Beuermann in Spain over 20 years.
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AlllAfrica.com - Uganda
April 9, 2007
The first model wind and solar energy-powered street lights
were commissioned by Kampala’s Mayor on Thursday. The multi-million dollar
project was done by Winafrique Uganda Limited, a local firm in conjunction with
Kampala City Council (KCC). Wind power is generated by converting the rotation
of turbine blades into electrical current by means of an electrical generator. Compared
to other forms of energy, wind energy is clean, renewable and would mitigate
the greenhouse if used to replace electricity derived from fossil fuels.
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AllAfrica.com - South Africa
Feb. 15, 2007
South Africa's first commercial wind farm has been
officially launched on a hilly farm near Darling, fanned appropriately by a
brisk south-easter and with puns - like "the winds of change are sweeping
Cape Town's energy sector" - abounding. Yesterday's sod-turning ceremony
marked the start of construction that should see the four giant turbines of the
Darling Wind Farm turning by about August.
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TUV Product Service – Namibia, Africa
Feb. 14, 2007
Rural areas without power could be provided with mobile networks which use wind and solar energy, it has emerged. Following a pilot scheme in Swindon, a mobile phone base station is to be set up in Namibia powered by the eco-friendly methods. Mobile base stations have previously been powered with solar energy, but the village of Dordabis is to additionally utilise wind energy.
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AllAfrica.com
Jan. 22, 2007
Electricity generated from wind power is seen as a possible option for Namibia
and NamPower has asked investors to submit proposals for a joint venture to set
up a wind park to generate 40 megawatt (MW) of electricity. For many years NamPower regarded the
generation of electricity at the coast - where the wind speed is the highest -
as too expensive, but now it is seen as a feasible option. "Currently the
power supply situation has changed. Wind energy appears to have become an
attractive investment," the power utility said in its request for
expression of interest published on its website.
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AllAfrica.com – Washington, D.C.
Jan. 18, 2007
Negotiators of the state owned utility monopoly, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), are in discussions with representatives of the Indian ENERCON in order to award the latter with a contract to build a wind power project. The two sides have begun their negotiations last week. This first wind power project for the country, to be installed in Messebo and Ashegode, in the Tigray Regional State, will generate 70mw electric power when completed. The project represents one of the two alternative sources of power generations the Corporation pursues in the coming five years, in order to meet its ambitious programme of covering 50pc of the country's physical geography with electricity, from the 18pc that is believed to have access now.
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Tunisia Online
11/16/2006
The chronic rise in oil prices has prompted Tunisian authorities to invest in renewable energies such as wind power. Recently, the Tunisian National Electricity Company (STEG) has decided to set up three additional wind farms with a total capacity of 120 MW.
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