Africa & Middle East

The world invested US$300 million into the off-grid solar sector in 2024, a 30% year-on-year decline in total funding, according to GOGLA.

South Africa’s government has approved the South African Renewable Energy Master Plan (SAREM) to accelerate renewables deployment.

A round-up of news from China with the price of solar wafers going up, TCL Zhonghuan shipping over 200GW of 210mm wafers and Complant securing an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a PV project in Congo.

Toyo Solar plans to double its annual solar PV cell production capacity in Ethiopia, East Africa.

Qair has inked PPAs with Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et du Gaz (STEG) for 298MW of solar PV.

Providing transparent data on grid capacity and connection requests has become “critical” to identifying bottlenecks as grid congestion becomes an increasing impediment to new renewable energy projects.

Scatec has penned a 25-year PPA with Tunisian state utility Société Tunisienne de l'Electricité et du Gaz for a 120MW solar PV power plant.

This would be treble the installations registered globally in 2024, with China controlling most of the supply chain.

A team of researchers from DEWA R&D Center, Dubai has undertaken a comprehensive review of PV module degradation in desert environments. Their research proposes a new test cycle to identify defects induced in PV modules by harsh desert conditions.

The company signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with Egypt Aluminium for a 1.1GW/200MWh solar-plus-storage project in the country.