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 Authorities of the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) received a delegation from the HYDROCHINA INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING CO., LTD., on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 as a follow up to a MOU signed between the LEC represented by its Chairman of the Board of Directors and the HYDROCHINA INTERNATION . . .

 Four Tanzanian companies are among 11 beneficiaries in Africa of one-million-US-dollar grant from the US President Baraka Obama’s Power Africa initiative to expand their renewable energy solutions to rural communities.   Power Africa said in a statement that the beneficiaries in T . . .

 Power cuts in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries could become an “exception” rather than a norm in 10 years time, with private capital expected to play an increasingly bigger role, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released yesterday.   The survey found tha . . .

 The consoritum that is working on construction of a geothermal power plant in Kenya has secured a has secured a risk cover from a German reinsurer, Munich Re worth US$ 300mn that will eventually pave way for the funding of the well drilling.   The risk cover is meant to compensate inves . . .

Electricity generation across the country has continued to maintain a continuous rise from 4,000megawatts just as it rose to 4,662mw on Wednesday.   Although the system began to rise in capacity from late June 2015, electricity customers across the 11 Distribution companies (Discos) had compl . . .