Africa & Middle East

A 1MW PV power plant, currently the largest in East Africa, has been completed at the Changoi Team Farm in Kenya.

Chinese PV mounting systems manufacturer Powerway has announced that it will work on a solar power project in Algeria that will total 233MW generation capacity when completed.

The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) will partner on thin-film PV research with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Senior Moroccan officials will tour the US this June as they look to kick start the North African country’s ambitious US$12.4 billion solar plans.

Egypt will invest US$1 billion in solar energy in the coming years, according to the state-run information service.

Additional renewable energy capacity, including onshore wind and photovoltaic power generation projects, will be granted approval under the third round of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP), the country’s Department of Energy (DoE) has announced.

Dubai’s state utility company has opened the tender process for 100MW solar PV generating capacity.

ET Solar’s German engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) subsidiary ET Solutions has completed and commissioned a 7.8MWp solar power plant in Mishmar Hanegev, Israel, for EDF Energies Nouvelles.

Dubai-based investment company Adenium Energy Capital is to co-develop a 10MW PV power plant in Jordan.

Norway based developer, Scatec Solar, is to build a 10MW PV power plant in Jordan.