Africa & Middle East

PV Tech Premium speaks with United Solar about the challenges of building polysilicon capacity outside of China and catering to the US and Indian markets.

Mainstream Renewable Power’s 50MW C&I Ilikwa PV Facility in South Africa’s Free State province has reached commercial operation.

Scatec has started commercial operations at the second and final phase of its gigawatt-scale Obelisk solar-plus-storage project in Egypt.

Researchers in Australia have heralded a potential breakthrough in recovering valuable silver from decommissioned PV modules.

Eight leading Chinese polysilicon producers have signed a joint initiative pledging unified action on standardised pricing, energy conservation, carbon reduction and outdated capacity phase-out.

Glenn Davis at Kiwa PI Berlin writes about why quality assurance has become one of the foundations for a solar PV project's bankability.

The Lebanese government is seeking bids for 350MW of solar PV and 1GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity.

Envusa Energy has reached financial close on a 63MWac solar PV project at Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen Mine in South Africa.

Perovskite innovators Oxford PV and Caelux are part of a new AI-enabled research network set up to accelerate breakthroughs in materials science.

JA has begun shipping modules under a multi-gigawatt order bound for a 5.2GW “round-the-clock” solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi.