Cairo has introduced feed-in tariffs for renewable energy projects, with financial backing from the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Benban solar park’s completion increased national solar power production to 2.4bn kWh last year, virtually ensuring that the country’s short-term solar target will be exceeded. However, the headline-grabber is the 158.7MW Taiba N’Diaye wind farm, which is West Africa’s first large wind power project. Elsewhere in the region, the Tanzanian government’s goal of increasing national generation capacity from 1.6GW to 10GW by 2025 looks overly ambitious. Uganda is seeking to build on its earlier hydro projects by encouraging the development of geothermal and solar power projects.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 30, 2020 12:55 UTC