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Spotlight | Tunisia
Chinese photovoltaic firms on the attack

Chinese groups, which have access to state financing and low-cost technology, could emerge as the winners of last May's call for firms looking to be pre-selected for the construction of eight photovoltaic power plants, together able to produce up to [...]

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Sun finally shines on Engie-Nareva, Scatec and TBEA-AMEA

Tunisia's parliament is expected to soon approve the concession contracts for the construction of five photovoltaic power stations in the south-west of the country worth an estimated $400m. The financial package for the project, which has already got the government green light, has yet to be finalised with international donors.

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Faced with omnipresent Japanese competition, Engie quits race for Olkaria VI

In mid-October Engie gave formal notice to the Kenya Electricity Generating Co (KenGen) that it was pulling out of the race for the 140MW Olkaria VI project

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Three years after EIB finance agreement, highway tender is finally issued

Having spent years looking for finance and conducting impact assessments, work on the highway between Sbikha and Jelma has at [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 22.10.2020

United States, West Africa
Millenium Challenge Corp: Engie and Akuo among eight selected for mini-grid build

Eight foreign power producers and Millennium Challenge Account Benin II (MCA-Benin II) are now days away from signing their co-financing deal delayed by the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 16.06.2020

Tunisia
Ex-energy minister Khaled Kaddour recruited by Bouchamaoui clan... in Cairo

Khaled Kaddour, who served as energy minister from 2017 to 2018, is making a quiet comeback but this time in the private sector within the family-run empire HBG Holding.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 04.06.2020

Tunisia's former Energy Minister Khaled Kaddour.

Tunisia
Mongi Marzouk wants to scupper CPG's PPP desalination project in Gabès

The energy and mines minister, who is against public-private partnerships, wants to cancel plans to build the plant which is supposed to supply water to the phosphate processing complex in Gabès. He risks incurring the wrath of the international financial institutions, however.

Subscribers only Business 26.05.2020

Tunisia
Mongi Marzouk fights back at private renewable energy enterprise

To both protect the national power board STEG and assert his own position, the minister of energy wants to scupper the previous government's move to open Tunisia's electricity market to private solar power and wind farm developers.

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Kenya
Engie eyes geothermal market to north of Nairobi

The French giant Engie, which currently has a limited presence on the continent despite its size, is seeking to break into the Kenyan market.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 14.05.2020

Tunisia
The Bouchamaouis go for fast expansion of new KFC network

Hédi Bouchamaoui Group (HBG), the family holding company headed by [...]

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Tunisia
Oil junior Mazarine Energy poised to win solar power contracts

Dutch oil junior Mazarine Energy, which is active in oil exploration and production in southern Tunisia, could soon break into [...]

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Spotlight | Morocco
DLA Piper revises "13-09" renewables law for Rabbah

Ten years after it was adopted, the 13-09 law on "renewable" private sector electricity production is to be radically revised. The reform, which was been drawn up with the help of law firm DLA Piper, could open up a breach [.

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Tunisia
Globeleq contests 500 MW solar project contract awards

Adjudication of the tender call for the construction of five photovoltaic solar power plants with a combined output of 500 [...]

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Tunisia
CONECT to reorganise its management structure

Tunisian national "citizen" companies federation CONECT is reorganising its entire [...]

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Uganda
Fenix International secures valuable backing on renewables

On 30 September, Fenix International Uganda learnt that its initiative [...]

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Spotlight | Cameroon
Globeleq keen to keep earning from Kribi and Dibamba power plants

The recent restructuring of Cameroon's electricity sector has led to talks between British producer Globeleq and local counterparts.

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Tunisia
Total Eren and EDF drop out of giant solar energy project

The big tender call for the construction of solar energy plants representing a total 500 MW on a concession basis [...]

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 18.07.2019

Tunisia
Bouchamaoui Industries is STEG's favourite gas contractor

Brothers Raouf and Maher Bouchamaoui are doing well out of the programme to promote the use of natural gas sponsored [...]

Free access Business 20.06.2019

Tunisia
Hazem Yahyaoui resurfaces as director of hydrocarbons

According to our sources, Hazem Yahyaoui has been confirmed as the new director of hydrocarbons, a position he briefly held [...]

Subscribers only Energy 09.04.2019

Tunisia
Celamin buys fresh bill of health with Ahmed Bouchamaoui

The brand new partnership formed between Celamin Holdings and Al Kassm Holding to develop mining projects in Tunisia should give [...]

Subscribers only Mining 02.04.2019

Tunisia
Chahed puts solar power companies under political pressure

Prime minister Youssef Chahed is to impose his political agenda [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.03.2019

Tunisia
EDF, Engie and Total ask for state land for their wind farms

Youssef Chahed's visit to Paris on February 13 to 15 gave France's electricity giants a chance to call for modifications [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.02.2019

Tunisia
Youssef Chahed sends Mohamed Salah Arfaoui to Gafsa's rescue

Hardly had he joined prime minister Youssef Chahed's team of advisers than Mohamed Salah Arfaoui had to start grappling with [...]

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Tunisia
Youssef Chahed to lobby for G7 support in Biarritz

The visit of prime minister Youssef Chahed to Paris on [...]

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Morocco
Doubts over EDF-Masdar bid delay Noor Midelt contract award

Renewable energy agency MASEN is faced with a major solar headache. According to our information, the agency is struggling to [...]

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Tunisia
STEG's solar power plants come out of limbo

Very discreetly, national electric utility STEG (Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz) has relaunched its plan to build a [...]

Free access Business 17.01.2019

Tunisia
Oil firms with no-one to call on since Kaddour's departure

As the majors continue to leave the country one by one, the latest being Repsol (AEI 829), Tunisia's petroleum sector [...]

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Morocco
EDF just fails to clinch giant Noor Midelt solar plant contract

The storm clouds are gathering over the giant Noor Midelt 800 MW solar power plant project. According to our information, [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.12.2018

Tunisia
Chahed looks to beef up control over public sector contracts

Public contracts watchdog HAICOP, which is under the authority of [...]

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Tunisia
Chahed's wind farms attract interest from EDF, Enel and Acciona

Prime minister Youssef Chahed hopes shortly to lay the foundation stones for "his" first big privately-owned wind farms. According to [...]

Free access Business 15.11.2018

Tunisia
Chahed liquidates Kaddour's legacy

Prime minister Youssef Chahed is doing his best to undo the work carried out by former energy minister Khaled Kaddour, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.10.2018

Tunisia
Alice Events runs Tunis PPP forum

Investment minister Zied Laadhari has given Alice Events the job [...]

Subscribers only Business 13.09.2018

Tunisia
Chahed short-circuits Kaddour on renewables

The prime minister has overridden the views of his energy ministry by revising electricity purchase rates in the way investors have been advocating

Subscribers only Business 31.05.2018

Tunisia
Chahed-Kaddour clash derails renewable energy plan

The government's renewable energy development plan has set sparks flying between prime minister Youssef Chahed and his energy minister Khaled [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.04.2018

Tunisia
Wided Bouchamaoui chases Big Mac after Nobel prize

Wided Bouchamaoui, who left the chair of employers' organization UTICA in February after having been at its head since 2011, [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.04.2018

Tunisia
Tarek Bouchamaoui targets solar business with Akuo Energy

Multi-sector businessman Tarek Bouchamaoui is looking to benefit from the development of new markets. Bouchamaoui, who is head of the [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.01.2018

Tunisia
Public sector banks’ bad debts could be cancelled

The much disputed "economic reconciliation" bill cherished by President Beji Caid Essebsi ("BCE", MC 1173) could provide an opportunity to [...]

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Spotlight | Morocco
"M6" set to become electricity magnate

The award of the contract for realization of the "integrated wind power programme" of national electricity and water office ONEE to a consortium headed by Nareva is going to make Mohammed VI ("M6") the kingdom's biggest electricity producer.

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Spotlight | Morocco
Funding puzzle for ONEE's wind farms

How does Morocco's Office National de l'Electricite et de l'Eau Potable (ONEE), which has just received 5 billion dirhams in emergency aid from the government, intend to finance construction of five wind farms due to generate 850 MW at a [.

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Lazaar pushes ahead

Operating discreetly in his home country for years, the Tunisian-Swiss [...]

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Tunisia Chahed-Kaddour clash derails renewable energy plan

Tunisia Wided Bouchamaoui chases Big Mac after Nobel prize

Tunisia Tarek Bouchamaoui targets solar business with Akuo Energy

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Spotlight | Tunisia
Chinese photovoltaic firms on the attack

Tunisia
Sun finally shines on Engie-Nareva, Scatec and TBEA-AMEA

Kenya
Faced with omnipresent Japanese competition, Engie quits race for Olkaria VI

Tunisia
Three years after EIB finance agreement, highway tender is finally issued

United States, West Africa
Millenium Challenge Corp: Engie and Akuo among eight selected for mini-grid build

Tunisia
Ex-energy minister Khaled Kaddour recruited by Bouchamaoui clan... in Cairo

Tunisia
Mongi Marzouk wants to scupper CPG's PPP desalination project in Gabès

Tunisia
Mongi Marzouk fights back at private renewable energy enterprise

Kenya
Engie eyes geothermal market to north of Nairobi

Tunisia
The Bouchamaouis go for fast expansion of new KFC network

Tunisia
Oil junior Mazarine Energy poised to win solar power contracts

Spotlight | Morocco
DLA Piper revises "13-09" renewables law for Rabbah

Tunisia
Globeleq contests 500 MW solar project contract awards

Tunisia
CONECT to reorganise its management structure

Uganda
Fenix International secures valuable backing on renewables

Spotlight | Cameroon
Globeleq keen to keep earning from Kribi and Dibamba power plants

Tunisia
Total Eren and EDF drop out of giant solar energy project

Tunisia
Bouchamaoui Industries is STEG's favourite gas contractor

Tunisia
Hazem Yahyaoui resurfaces as director of hydrocarbons

Tunisia
Celamin buys fresh bill of health with Ahmed Bouchamaoui

Tunisia
Chahed puts solar power companies under political pressure

Tunisia
EDF, Engie and Total ask for state land for their wind farms

Tunisia
Youssef Chahed sends Mohamed Salah Arfaoui to Gafsa's rescue

Tunisia
Youssef Chahed to lobby for G7 support in Biarritz

Morocco
Doubts over EDF-Masdar bid delay Noor Midelt contract award

Tunisia
STEG's solar power plants come out of limbo

Tunisia
Oil firms with no-one to call on since Kaddour's departure

Morocco
EDF just fails to clinch giant Noor Midelt solar plant contract

Tunisia
Chahed looks to beef up control over public sector contracts

Tunisia
Chahed's wind farms attract interest from EDF, Enel and Acciona

Tunisia
Chahed liquidates Kaddour's legacy

Tunisia
Alice Events runs Tunis PPP forum

Tunisia
Chahed short-circuits Kaddour on renewables

Tunisia
Chahed-Kaddour clash derails renewable energy plan

Tunisia
Wided Bouchamaoui chases Big Mac after Nobel prize

Tunisia
Tarek Bouchamaoui targets solar business with Akuo Energy

Tunisia
Public sector banks’ bad debts could be cancelled

Spotlight | Morocco
"M6" set to become electricity magnate

Spotlight | Morocco
Funding puzzle for ONEE's wind farms

Tunisia
Lazaar pushes ahead