Johannesburg - Government has come up with a draft national solar water heating framework aimed at popularizing the idea of solar water power, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday.
The minister said South Africa, as well as the rest of the continent, had long under-utilized the power of the sun while adding that the global [...]

JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - Kenya’s leading power producer is seeking a total of $5 billion over the next 10 years to develop the largely untapped geothermal potential in east Africa’s biggest economy to boost power supply.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) (KEGN1.NR), which generates about 80 percent of the country’s power mainly from hydro sources, [...]

By Bambang Djanuarto
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Sasol Ltd., the world’s biggest producer of motor fuels from coal, may invest $10 billion in an Indonesian plant, said a government official in Jakarta.
Sasol will sign an accord with the Ministry of Energy to study the possibility of a coal-to-oil plant in Indonesia, said Bukin Daulay, head of [...]

By Ron Derby
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — Eskom Holdings Ltd., South Africa’s state-owned power utility, will select the winner of a tender for the construction of a 120 billion-rand ($11.7 billion) nuclear power plant in the country by January.
“We will announce the outcome of the commercial process before the end of the year,” Fani Zulu, a [...]