Policy

Association hails plummeting solar costs ahead of next tender this June, with new figures showing industry has hit 2GW capacity mark.

President Lungu cuts red ribbon of 54MW Bangwelulu project, the first to be tendered, financed and built under the World Bank’s Scaling Solar programme.

Grid expansion push is first of nine projects set to help country accommodate renewable surge all the way to 2025.

Industry body: Urgent review needed for marginal loss factor system causing “unpredictable hits” to the financial viability of PV and others.

Agreements combining solar and wind to become a reality given their ability to mitigate intermittency costs, says WBCSD report.

300,000-strong solar workforce could see bloc add 30 million rooftop installations by 2030, says SolarPower Europe as it anticipates new policy roadmap.

Land acquisition, corruption and short-termism complicate scaling up solar and others with the speed required by climate change, London event hears.

Onus is now on industry to satisfy rising demand for solar, association PSES says as country prepares to tender 750MW of PV this year.

The government will watch early tenders with a view to possibly including ingots, wafers and polysilicon to the domestic content mandate.

Contracts for Enel and Emgesa to supply Andean state between 2022 and 2023 mark PV’s first victories at tender designed to mitigate effects of droughts.