The project will add a total of 199MW of battery-storage capacity at carefully selected sites across the country to improve reliability of public power utility Eskom's transmission grid.
Construction of a new deepwater port project worth approximately $1B broke ground on Jan. 4 in Dakar, Senegal with the developer planning to implement the project in two phases.
Ethiopia has begun generating electricity at its new 5,000-MW roller-compacted concrete gravity-type dam on the Nile River. The first 375 MW went to the national grid on Feb. 20.