Africa & Middle East

A total of 83% of module manufacturers have had at least one test failure in the Kiwa PVEL 2025 Module Reliability Scorecard, up from 66% a year ago.

GameChange Solar has announced plans to double the capacity of its Saudi Arabia tracker component manufacturing facility to 6GW.

Arctech has partnered with ACME Cleantech Solutions to provide 175MW worth of solar trackers for an upcoming facility in Duqm, Oman.

A new manufacturing method has produced tandem perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with a conversion efficiency of 27.8%.

PV Talk: Global Solar Council CEO Sonia Dunlop tells Shreeyashi Ojha why the solar industry needs collective action to combat political and supply-chain disruption.

Researchers have developed a new methodology they hope will improve the modelling of the impact of different types of dust on PV performance.

In 2024, 20 million people improved their access to energy through the acquisition of solar energy kits (SEKs), according to GOGLA.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved financing for a 62MW PV plant in Togo, while Zambia began construction on a 100MW solar-plus-storage project.

A study from researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has shown that a synthetic molecule in the design of a perovskite solar cell can boost its energy efficiency and longevity.

The Q2 2025 edition (Volume 42) of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download.