Africa & Middle East

Acwa Power has been awarded three solar PV projects in the Aswan Province of Benban, Egypt, under Round 2 of the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) programme.

Ingeteam bags 170MW Morocco inverter solution order, BayWa completes 20MW California project, TerniEnergia redundancies.

A pay-to-own solar system will be developed in Zambia by MTN, Africa’s largest telecoms company, in partnership with Fenix International, who is extending ReadyPay Power.

The World Bank is providing US$150 million in credit for off-grid solar energy in marginalised communities of Kenya.

SPONSORED: System installation and maintenance helps determine long-term performance of a photovoltaic system.

Switzerland-based electric power company ABB will provide its central inverters for two PV projects totaling 102MW in Jordan.

An unnamed Italian company will build a 100MW solar plant in Hormuzgan Province of far south Iran, according to the region's governor Jasem Jadri.

Redavia has commissioned an eight-container solar farm at Shanta Gold’s New Luika mine in the Chunya district of Tanzania, which it claims to be the largest in the country.

Mobisol has secured funding from Finnfund for its East Africa expansion, CEFC's investment commitments more than doubled last fiscal year, Acciona is supplying renewable energy to Latin America's largest retail store chain, Sungrow has supplied inverters and an energy storage system to the Bahamas.

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.