South Africa will connect 7,000MW of renewable power to its grid by mid this year, when the first 47 projects become fully operational, the Energy Minister said.

Delhi is expected to sign a deal with the US-based Westinghouse Electric Company LLC to build six nuclear reactors in India in the first half of 2016 to get country's $150b worth of nuclear power plans off the ground, a senior official of the Indian government said.

Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi said on Thursday the kingdom envisaged the fact that fossil fuels could become unnecessary before the middle of the century and was investing in renewable energy for that reason.

Egyptian industry should switch from fossil fuels to natural gas in order to increase its cost-effectiveness, the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) recommended in its eighth board meeting.