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Kenya Power has started work on a KSh900 million transmission line to connect Lodwar to the national grid, decommissioning a weather-vulnerable diesel generator facility that costs the utility the same amount to run annually.

Camco built REPP 2 expecting commercial investors in the debt tranche and development finance institutions in the equity. Speaking to ENN, Fund Director Benjamin Hugues says the opposite happened within the equity, and puts it down to defence spending shrinking the development finance available and Western governments choosing returnable capital over grants.

Vincenzia Leitich is Executive Vice President for Power and Renewables, Client Coverage at Standard Bank. Across two episodes of the Let's Talk Energy Podcast she told ENN how open access has turned mining into an anchor customer for African renewables, and why transmission rather than capital is now the binding constraint.

ReconAfrica holds licenses covering 13 million contiguous acres across the Kavango Basin, where successful flow testing at the Kavango West 1X well has recorded the first onshore hydrocarbon recovery in Namibian history. The commercial transition pits state-backed financial targets against the protections of the Okavango Delta watershed.

British International Investment and Alexforbes each put R500 million into the Revego Africa Energy Fund in January, taking it to R3 billion. BII conditionally approved a further R250 million, subject to being matched locally. Speaking to ENN, Revego's Chief Investment Officer Ziyaad Sarang says that match is still open.

The Rural Electrification Agency commissions a 3MW solar hybrid plant at Yakubu Gowon University in Abuja on Wednesday 16 September, under Phase II of the Energizing Education Programme and with support from the World Bank Group. Joseph Tegbe, Minister of Power, performs the commissioning.

TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanné is anchoring East African infrastructure spending in the Albertine rift basin, where commercial production is now targeted for June 2027. As green funding mandates squeeze Western commercial syndicates, the development relies on a 1,443km heated artery to bring its newly branded "Pearl Sweet" crude to market via Vitol.

The South African Reserve Bank has linked structural macroeconomic strains to a 65 per cent decline in national petroleum refining operations. As processing assets idle, central bank governors trace an incremental R76 billion fuel import cost that exposes localised distribution networks to volatile global maritime product channels.