Africa & Middle East

April 10, 2018
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.
April 10, 2018
The government of Zambia has issued a Request for Qualification (RfQ) for up to 100MW of solar under the first round of the GET FiT Zambia programme.
April 9, 2018
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.
April 9, 2018
India has launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of EVA sheets for solar modules from China, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.
April 6, 2018
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.
April 6, 2018
German firm Athos Solar has completed two more large-scale PV systems in Iran, each with 8.5MW capacity in the province of Hamadan.
April 6, 2018
Tunisia eyes 1GW solar and wind, Meeco to build 7MW open access PV project in India, Mendoza to issue US$100 million green bond
April 6, 2018
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.
April 5, 2018
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.
April 4, 2018
The South African government has signed 27 power purchase agreements (PPAs) after resolving the latest twist in the long-running saga.

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