The Medupi Power Station being built in Limpopo province,
African Development Bank (Abidjan)
Powering Africa: AfDB Gives a Boost to DRC & South Africa's Eskom
As part of its New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is charging on with plans to light up Africa. The Bank recently signed a loan facility for USD 1.34 billion towards South Africa's power utility Eskom's capital expenditure program, and approved a USD 11 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for affordable electricity coverage within the country as well as to neighboring Nile Equatorial Lakes countries. More about AfDB in this BRIEFING.
Interconnection of Electric Grids of the NEL Countries, Shango, Rwanda (Site Picture) - Overall objective of NELSAP is to improve access to electricity within the Nile Basin Initiative countries--Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda--through increased cross-border power trade following the establishment of Uganda-Rwanda and Kenya-Uganda interconnections, in addition to an upgrade of the existing interconnections between Burundi, the DRC and Rwanda.
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