KIBO ENERGY PLC - KIBO ADVANCES BENGA POWER PROJECT

KIBO ADVANCES BENGA POWER PROJECT

Kibo Energy PLC (Incorporated in Ireland)
(Registration Number: 451931)
(External registration number: 011/007371/10)
Share code on the JSE Limited: KBO
Share code on the AIM: KIBO
ISIN: IE00B97C0C31
(“Kibo” or “the Company”)

12 April 2021

    KIBO ADVANCES BENGA POWER PROJECT FURTHER DURING SUCCESFUL
    TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL WORKSHOP WITH MOZAMBIQUE ENERGY UTILITY


Kibo Energy PLC ("Kibo" or the "Company"), the multi-asset, Africa focused, energy company, is
delighted to provide a progress update on the Benga Power Plant Project in Mozambique (“BPPP”)
after a successful meeting with Mozambique Utility Electricidade De Moçambique (“EDM”) in
Maputo, Mozambique.


Highlights
    * Successful technical and business workshop with EDM to negotiate and agree next steps in the
      process towards the ultimate agreement and finalization of a PPA, and

    * Formal submission of an advanced technical and commercial information pack to EDM, as part
      of the ongoing development workstreams provided for under the existing MoU with EDM and
      emanating from the Definitive Feasibility Study previously submitted to EDM.


Discussion
Kibo and its local JV partners recently attended a workshop with EDM in Maputo to discuss and agree
the next steps towards the ultimate finalization of a PPA. During the meeting the final optimised
definitive feasibility study, inclusive of the updated grid integration study, and a summary of an updated
draft financial model was presented and discussed as the fundamentals that will guide and focus the
further course of the PPA process. This will ensure that a final result is obtained at the earliest
opportunity possible.


The very productive discussions during the workshop, amongst others, also included an agreement
reached between the parties to integrate specific EDM inputs into the Financial Model and the
immediate initiation of a formal EPC process towards finalizing an advanced Financial Model that
reflects firm numbers on key commercial parameters.


Louis Coetzee, CEO of Kibo Energy, commented:
“The workshop in Maputo that was long overdue on account of travel restrictions due to COVID-19,
was productive and succeeded in significantly enhancing the already good momentum that exists in the
ongoing development of the BPPP. The workshop also afforded us the opportunity to formally submit
an optimised version of the Feasibility Study and related work progress reports, which amongst others
also incorporates the inclusion of the Baobab Tete Steel and Vanadium Project in the enhanced
business case for the BPPP. The studies and reports that were submitted to EDM during the meeting
demonstrates a robust business case, consisting of a project with a diversified and balanced off take
composition that also brings with it pertinent strategic advantages to the energy sector as a whole.


The BPPP is at a very exciting juncture in its development process and we look forward to updating
the market on further progress in due course”

                                              **ENDS**

For further information please visit www.kibo.energy or contact:

 Louis Coetzee         info@kibo.energy              Kibo Energy PLC          CEO

 Andreas Lianos        +357 99 53 1107               River Group              JSE Corporate and Designated Adviser

 Claire Noyce          +44 (0) 20 3764 2341          Hybridan LLP             Broker
 Bhavesh Patel /
 Stephen Allen         +44 20 3440 6800              RFC Ambrian Limited      NOMAD on AIM
 
 Isabel de Salis /
 Charlie Hollinshead   info@stbridespartners.co.uk   St Brides Partners Ltd   Financial PR
 

Notes
Kibo Energy PLC is a multi-asset, Africa focused, energy company positioned to address the acute
power deficit, which is one of the primary impediments to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
To this end, it is the Company’s objective to become a leading independent power producer in the region.


Kibo is simultaneously developing three similar coal-fuelled power projects: the Mbeya Coal to Power
Project (‘MCPP’) in Tanzania; the Mabesekwa Coal Independent Power Project (‘MCIPP’) in Botswana;
and the Benga Independent Power Project (‘BIPP’) in Mozambique. By developing these projects in
parallel, the Company intends to leverage considerable economies of scale and timing in respect of
strategic partnerships, procurement, equipment, human capital, execution capability / capacity and
project finance.

Johannesburg
12 April 2021
Corporate and Designated Adviser
River Group

Date: 12-04-2021 12:00:00
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