Africa & Middle East

Bahrain has agreed to develop a 72MW solar power project in Sakhir, which will be the country’s largest solar facility.

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has selected Masdar to build the sixth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.

Off-grid solar product manufacturer d.light has secured US$30 million to purchase up to US$125 million of receivable assets.

Inverter manufacturer Sungrow has signed an agreement with Indian comglomerate Larsen & Toubro to supply 2.2GW inverters for a hydrogen project in Saudi Arabia.

The state-owned Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (Masen) has opened the third tender of its solar-plus-storage Noor Midelt project.

Spanish solar tracker provider PV Hardware (PVH) has signed a supply agreement with Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro for 805MW of trackers.

Stuti Gupta, Solar Lead at Prescinto, an AI-powered asset performance management platform for solar, wind and energy storage assets, and Prescinto Performance Excellence Head Abhishek Puttanna on the role of artificial intelligence in monitoring and optimising photovoltaic assets.

As solar PV continues its accelerated growth, 2023 is expected to be no exception with 270GW of capacity to be added, according to Wood Mackenzie.

In this article, Richard Doyle, MD of JUWI Renewable Energies South Africa, discusses the benefits, lessons and future of solar PV with battery energy storage for mining.

Uncertainty surrounding ownership models of large-scale solar projects raises a question: are such facilities simply too big to succeed?