Africa & Middle East

Spanish solar tracker provider PV Hardware (PVH) has secured a 230MW PV tracker supply for a project in Egypt.

A new report into the world’s clean energy transition, has called for an expansion of global solar capacity to 5.4TW by 2030.

Colorado-based mini-grid specialist Husk Power has secured more than US$100 million in equity and debt funding aimed to grow its community solar mini-grids in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Renewables are set to contribute 80% of new power capacity to 2030 in the stated policies scenario (STEPS), with solar PV alone accounting for more than half of it, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Renewables investor Magnora ASA has sold a 90MW solar PV project in South Africa to independent power producer (IPP) Globeleq.

JinkoSolar has agreed to supply 3.8GW of its n-type panels to energy company ACWA Power for use at two solar projects in Saudi Arabia.

PV Tech spoke with Trina Solar's Walt Ma about the company’s facility in Brazil and the importance of a localised manufacturing strategy.

US tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar has announced plans to supply solar trackers to the 560MW Kom Ombo solar farm in Egypt.

German renewable energy project developer ABO Wind has sold a 100MW solar PV project in South Africa’s North West Province to an unnamed investor.

The International Financing Corporation has signed a deal with Moroccan state-owned phosphate mining and fertiliser producer OCP Group to partially finance 400MW worth of solar PV.