Africa & Middle East

Solar manufacturer GCL SI is among the companies that will be present at COP28 and with whom PV Tech was able to speak with Zhang Kun, executive president of GCL SI about what it expects from COP28, the pledge to treble renewable generation capacity and what the solar industry can bring to the conversation in Dubai.

118 countries have signed the ‘Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge’ on Saturday (2 December) at COP28 in Dubai to treble global installed capacity by 2030.

Greater strategic coordination of solar worldwide is needed to help meet climate goals, the new CEO of the Global Solar Council has said.

The COP28 meeting kicking off in Dubai today will be arguably the biggest ever for solar, says new Global Solar Council chief, Sonia Dunlop.

Summit Ridge Energy and PureSky Energy have established financing facilities, while Mainstream has closed funding for a 97.5MW solar project.

Thin-film manufacturer First Solar is well placed to weather any downturn in PV manufacturing going into 2024.

Encompassing about four million bi-facial solar modules, the project will supply power to the procurer of the project, Emirates Water and Electricity Company

The Saudi Power Procurement Company has released a RFQ for the fifth round of solar projects with a total capacity of 3.7GW.

Everything seems to be pointing to the solar PV manufacturing sector going into a downturn in 2024, with loss-making potentially rife across much of the upstream sector.

JinkoPower has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Saudi Power Procurement Company for the 400MW Tabarjal solar PV project.