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Benin solar IPP reaches financial close as IFC and Proparco lend €30m for 62MWp

5th November, 2026 · Updated: 2nd November, 2026

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Benin solar IPP reaches financial close as IFC and Proparco lend €30m for 62MWp

AXIAN Energy has signed €30m of financing with IFC and Proparco for IPP50, four solar plants in Natitingou, Djougou, Parakou and Bohicon that make up Benin’s first solar project under an independent power producer model, four years after the concessions were signed, with commercial operation planned for the first quarter of 2028.

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EXCLUSIVE: IGU’s Andrea Stegher on putting West Africa’s gas to work

Andrea Stegher, President of the International Gas Union, on why West Africa’s gas should reach well beyond the power station. In written answers to ENN, he argues that using gas as a feedstock for fertiliser and petrochemicals would help create jobs and give new projects a broader customer base, provided governments give investors predictable rules.

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AXIAN Energy has signed €30m of financing with IFC and Proparco for IPP50, four solar plants in Natitingou, Djougou, Parakou and Bohicon that make up Benin’s first solar project under an independent power producer model, four years after the concessions were signed, with commercial operation planned for the first quarter of 2028.

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EXCLUSIVE: IGU’s Andrea Stegher on putting West Africa’s gas to work

Andrea Stegher, President of the International Gas Union, on why West Africa’s gas should reach well beyond the power station. In written answers to ENN, he argues that using gas as a feedstock for fertiliser and petrochemicals would help create jobs and give new projects a broader customer base, provided governments give investors predictable rules.

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Every autumn I fly to Washington to catch up with the partners behind the Powering Africa Summit, and I came home from this year’s trip more certain than ever that our 12th edition next March is the place to be.

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Desert Technologies sustainability report shows customers avoided 126,055 tonnes of CO₂ in 2025

Desert Technologies’ 2025 sustainability report puts the CO₂ emissions its customers avoided last year at about 126,055 tonnes, as the Saudi clean energy company, which works across the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, reports more than 200MW of solar projects built or now under way.

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JA and MBHE Valley Acres have signed an agreement at the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit in Livingstone to take commercial and industrial solar and storage projects from development through to operation and maintenance, with Podium Energy providing finance for several projects that are now ready to build.

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Linda Thompson, Managing Director of Mphepo Power, makes the case for wind in a Zambian grid built around hydro, after the Zambia Environmental Management Agency approved 350MW across the Unika I and II wind farms near Katete, developed in partnership with the Chewa people, ahead of the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit.

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Monie Captan, Deputy CEO for West Africa at Petrodex, used the official opening of the Zimbabwe-Zambia Energy Projects Summit in Livingstone to make the case for open electricity markets and cross-border trading, as Petrodex adds solar generation in Zambia and works through licensing to trade power inside Zimbabwe.