Africa & Middle East

More than 80GW of solar PV will be installed just in 2017, despite a slowdown in annual demand growth, according to the latest ‘Global Solar Demand Monitor Q2 2017’ from GTM Research.

Mondragon Assembly Solar, a division of Spain-based Mondragon Assembly Group has secured multiple new turnkey assembly and automated assembly equipment orders from Algeria, Egypt, and China in June.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced this week that it will fund the construction of Chad’s first large-scale solar project.

SolarEdge has unveiled a PV inverter with an integrated electric vehicle charger.

IEA finds renewables investment down 3%, Huntec to build 370MW in Mexico, Meeco to build 57 small-scale systems in Guyana, Enel and SeedWorld collaborate to find Africa energy startups.

A total of US$35.6 billion was invested in solar energy worldwide in Q2 this year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).

ReneSola has been awarded 5MW of agricultural PV projects in Thailand, Vonovia and E.ON are to install 2.2MW of solar systems in Dresden, Redavia has opened a Ghana office.

French PV developer Solairedirect, a subsidiary of French energy company Engie, has completed and connected a 30MW PV project in Senegal, according to Jeune Afrique.

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Organised by Fraunhofer CSE in partnership with Royal DSM and Greentown Labs, the SunRISE TechBridge Challenge II had selected four early-stage companies from 56 applications to be given support in bringing their technology to market faster.