The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors approved a US $3-million grant of the Bank’s Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) for Phase 2 of the Green Mini-Grid Market Development Programme (GMG MDP). Implemented by the Bank-hosted SEforALL Africa Hub, the GMG MDP’s objective is to...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf along with her counterparts from Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Guinea, broke ground for the Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (CLSG) interconnection project, on the sideline of the high-level ECOWAS Heads of State summit in Liberia, held Sunday 4 June...
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) awarded Liberia a grant in the amount of US$ 23.25 million to help transform the country’s renewable energy sector. The project aims at developing a 9.8 MW hydropower plant at Gbedin Falls on the Mano River in Nimba County and provide a low-cost, sustainable and...
In a collaborative initiative, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have joined efforts to operationalize the ‘Desert to Power Initiative’ in eleven countries including Sudan. In his key note remarks at the opening session on 25 July 2017 in Khartoum,...
This paper contributes to the economics literature on renewable energy generation by investigating climate-change impacts on renewable energy generation in Africa (with special focus on hydropower generation as it is the main renewable source of power in the continent). The analysis includes 51...
Nova Scotia Power Development Limited (NSPDL) is planning to develop a ground mounted 80 MWAC Solar Photovoltaic (PV) plant. NSPDL was incorporated in Nigeria under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990, on the 12th of September, 2013 with registration number RC 1141701. The company is set up...
The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are leading renewed calls for global investment towards an electrified Africa. They made the call at the 19th Africa Energy Forum concluded recently in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7-9. “We are all looking at the...
Le Fonds des Energies Durables pour l’Afrique (SEFA), logé à la Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD), a approuvé un don de 985,500 dollars EU pour améliorer la bancabilité et atteindre le bouclage financier d’un projet intégré, comprenant la construction de deux petites centrales...