Africa & Middle East

Silicon-based tandem solar cells and modules are expected to enter commercial production in 2027 with a module efficiency of 27%, according to the latest International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV) published by German engineering association VDMA.

GCL Tech is to build the Middle East's first polysilicon plant and the company's first overseas facility in the UAE.

As the unexpected happens, accurate forecasting becomes a vital tool to sustain grid operations, writes Tigo Energy's Evgeny Finkel.

The challenges facing Europe's solar sector are explored in depth in the latest edition of our quarterly journal, PV Tech Power.

Installed solar and wind capacity is set to treble from now until 2030, and treble again between 2030 and 2050 to reach 31TW, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF).

The solar PV project will have revenue coming from a 30-year sales contract with Tunisian public grid operator STEG.

UAE-based renewables developer AMEA Power has started construction on a 120MW solar PV project in Tunisia.

For the second year in a row, solar PV outpaced wind in global electricity growth generation in 2023, according to energy think tank Ember.

Clean energy manufacturing – led by solar PV expansions – accounted for 4% of global GDP growth in 2023, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Zambian developer GEI Power and Turkish energy technology firm YEO are planning a 60MWp/20MWh solar-plus-storage project in Zambia, expected online by September 2025.