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Togo is preparing to procure a 120MW dual-fuel plant at the Lomé Thermal Power Plant site, running mainly on natural gas, with World Bank support under its Mission 300 energy compact. The selection process is expected to launch in the fourth quarter, with peak demand growing about 10% a year.

Kenya’s geothermal plants produced 6,420.51GWh in the year to June 2026, 40.91% of all the electricity the country generated, according to the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority. New capacity of 70MW at Menengai, from Kaishan Renewable Energy and Globeleq, lifted the installed geothermal fleet to 1,013.7MW.

Ghana’s Energy and Green Transition Minister John Abdulai Jinapor has put 35 mini-grids and the Ghana Nuclear Power Programme among the priorities for 2027, after a year in which a fire at the Akosombo switchyard took more than 1,000MW off the system and more than 2,000 new transformers were procured.

Speaking to ENN, Gridworks Chief Executive Chris Flavin explains what made a privately financed transmission line between Kalumbila in Zambia and Kolwezi in the DRC workable, and what its 700MW of capacity will open up for Zambian power producers and traders once it carries electricity into the DRC’s Copperbelt.

Madagascar’s Ministry of Mines has formalised the exploitation permit for Harena Rare Earths’ Ampasindava project, an ionic clay deposit the London-listed company plans to bring into production in 2028 at about 4,000 tonnes of rare earth oxides a year, with up to $4.84m from the US DFC behind its pilot.

Dangote Petroleum Refinery reported a net profit of $4.73bn on revenue of $22.48bn for the nine months to September, against a loss a year earlier. Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has approved extending its share offer, which seeks about $1.6bn, to 27 October.

Ethiopia has inaugurated a National Precious Metals Refinery with capacity for more than 600 tonnes a year, owned 51% by the state through Ethiopian Investment Holdings. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the aim is to replace raw exports in a country where gold earned about half of last year’s export revenue.

Construction can now begin near Kafue Town in Zambia’s Lusaka Province. Globeleq has reached financial close on the 40MWac Kafue solar project, with US$52.1m committed by FMO and British International Investment and a 25-year power purchase agreement with ZESCO in place. Globeleq also owns 51% of Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company and is developing solar with battery storage at Leopards Hill. It sells to private industrial customers as well as to ZESCO. Here, Alasdair Martin, Director, Private Customer Solutions, writes for ENN on what buyers of industrial power in Southern Africa now want from the companies that supply them.

Shell has signed an agreement to sell Shell Nigeria Gas, which runs about 170km of pipeline serving more than 130 businesses in Ogun, Abia and Rivers, to the Nigerian company Vaaris Energy. Shell keeps its deepwater and integrated gas positions in Nigeria, including its interest in Nigeria LNG.

Uganda and the African Development Bank Group will host the 11th Africa Energy Market Place in Kampala on 21 and 22 October, where government and private investors will work through how to deliver the Mission 300 compact Uganda launched at the Africa Energy Forum in June.