Marisa Lourenço

Johannesburg

Risk Consultant at Freelance

Special Correspondent at African Energy

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TotalEnergies nears restart of Mozambique LNG megaproject

2 weeks ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 528 - 10 Jun 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 5 minute read Suspended since 2021, a formal resumption of activity at the TotalEnergies-operated Mozambique LNG scheme is now in sight, with security largely restored and finances falling into place. Such a development would augur well for ExxonMobil’s nearby Rovuma LNG megaproject writes Marisa Lourenço, recently in Maputo.
South Africa’s Necsa touts benefits of SMR nuclear plants

2 weeks ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 528 - 09 Jun 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read The potential addition of 200MW of small modular reactors (SMR) to Pretoria’s existing 2.5GW nuclear plans could speed up procurement, but the potential involvement of Russia is likely to raise eyebrows.
South Africa: New GX and RMB Ventures launch $120m fund

1 month ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 526 - 18 May 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read Infrastructure investor New GX Capital and private equity firm RMB Ventures have launched the Airnergize Capital Fund (ACF) I to invest in South African renewables, gas and water infrastructure.
South Africa: FlexED targets 1GW Khanyazwe gas-to-power IPP

1 month ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 526 - 15 May 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read FlexED has set out plans for a substantial new gas-to-power plant near Malelane in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province. It makes the Johannesberg-based firm one of the first bidders to emerge for the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s gas-to-power IPP procurement (GASIPPP) programme.
South Africa approves PPP procurement liberalisation

2 months ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 525 - 22 Apr 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read Amendments to South Africa’s public/private-partnership laws have been greenlit, liberalising infrastructure investment. The government has also determined that it will hold an open, competitive tender to procure new 400kV power transmission capacity.
Yellow Door to supply 20MWac to PPC’s South African cement plants

2 months ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Issue 524 - 02 Apr 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read Yellow Door has signed a PPA with South African cement supplier Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) to build a greenfield 20MWac solar PV IPP that will supply four of PPC’s factories in South Africa.
South Africa: Ivanplats signs renewable energy supply deal for Platreef mine

2 months ago | africa-energy.com | Marisa Lourenço

Project bulletin Issue 524 - 02 Apr 2025 - By Marisa Lourenço | 1 minute read A decade-long deal will see Enpower Trading wheel 48.3GWh/yr from SolarAfrica’s SunCentral power plant in De Aar, Northern Cape to the Ivanplats-operated Platreef mine in Limpopo province, one of the largest platinum group metal (PGM) plays in the world.
Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term

Oct 23, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Serag El Hegazi |Marisa Lourenço |Maxwell Maseko |Francois Venter

There was tension hanging in the air as I walked through Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, in July, just months before the country’s latest presidential election. The conversations I had in cafes and markets confirmed people’s uncertainty and apprehension about the state of their country. Tunisia was the location of an uprising against corruption, poverty and political repression in 2011 that ousted longtime autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Namibia’s uneven legal playing field undermines elections

Jul 24, 2024 | t.ly | Marisa Lourenço |Gabrielle Lynch |Francois Venter |Mesrob Vartavarian

Since Namibia became a democracy in 1990, following a protracted battle with then-apartheid South Africa for independence, not a general election has passed without the results being legally challenged by opposition parties. This year is unlikely to be any different, when the country’s seventh parliamentary and presidential polls take place on 27 November.