Africa

The largest solar-plus-storage project in the Southern Hemisphere explains South Africa's effort to mitigate its energy security situation.

Pure New Energy (PNE) has sold the 240MW Khauta solar project in South Africa to the NOA Group, an energy company based in the country.

Japanese conglomerate Toyota Tsusho Corporation has established a new joint venture (JV) seeking to develop renewable energy projects across Africa.

Teraco has also secured its first grid capacity allocation from South Africa state-operated utility Eskom.

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SkyPower has signed a joint development agreement with Africa Finance Corporation to develop a 200MW solar project in the DRC.

CrossBoundary Energy will develop a hybrid solar PV, BESS and thermal energy project at the Baomahun gold mine in Sierra Leone.

Two solar PV plants have been installed in gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mongolia to supply clean energy to their operations.

Scatec posted record-high revenues and construction figures over 2023 which it said was facilitated by lower module and BESS prices.

Iberdrola says that of the agreed amount €170 million has already been committed to finance onshore wind projects in Poland.