Iran’s Minister of Energy has also said that, at present, the country’s installed renewable power capacity is 527MW and it will have reached 1GW as of the end of March this year.
Lebanon could reconfigure its laws and regulations to allow private sector actors to generate renewable energy for sale to the grid, it emerged as the Middle Eastern country opened up its first solar-plus-storage tender process.
Seychelles to tender for 4MW of saltwater floating solar, Karnataka signs PPAs for 640MW of solar, BBOXX to tap UK impact investors to raise £2.5 million annually.
India has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of EVA sheets for solar modules from China, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.
Independent solar power producer Scatec Solar has confirmed it had signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) on three solar PV plants in South Africa totalling 258 MW.
PV Tech recently highlighted that the South African government has finally signed a total of 27 PPAs after long-running saga of delays.
CORRECTION: French power giant Engie and investment firm Meridiam have been awarded two solar PV projects totalling 60MW(AC) in Senegal with record low prices ranging between Euro cents 3.80-3.98/kWh.
Monitoring and instruments firm Gantner Instruments Environment Solutions said had been chosen to provide full monitoring services for four PV power plants in Egypt, totalling 230MW.
