Kenya has announced that it will build a 1,000 MW nuclear plant worth US$3.5bn by 2025 to support the country’s growing energy needs

Namibia's national power company NamPower and Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) have agreed to develop a gas-to-power plant worth US$1.2bn in Kudu by 2017

US president Barack Obama's multi-billion dollar project Power Africa will comprise solar and wind installations in six sub-Saharan countries to increase access to electricity 

The World Bank will invest an estimated US$550mn in hydro projects annually over 10 years in collaboration with the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a grant of US$26mn to rehabilitate and expand electricity networks in South Sudan