Icelands Reykjavik Geothermal will soon commence drilling to build a 500MW power plant on an imploded volcano in the Rift Valley, Ethiopia
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African Energy Resources to study Botswana’s coal projects
African Energy Resources will finalise a environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) and a definitive feasability study (DFS) of the Sese Coal Project and Mmamabula West Coal Project in Botswana
Kenya to build first nuclear plant by 2025
Kenya has announced that it will build a 1,000 MW nuclear plant worth US$3.5bn by 2025 to support the country’s growing energy needs
Namibia gas-to-power plant to be built within three years
Namibias national power company NamPower and Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) have agreed to develop a gas-to-power plant worth US$1.2bn in Kudu by 2017
Construction begins on Obama's US$21 billion electrification project
US president Barack Obamas multi-billion dollar project Power Africa will comprise solar and wind installations in six sub-Saharan countries to increase access to electricity