Africa & Middle East

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has inaugurated the 900MW fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the UAE.

Chinese ambassador to South Africa Chen Xiaodong has offered to provide the South African grid with 66GW of solar infrastructure.

Solar PV additions have seen significant increase over the past few years, while it is also leading the increase in new renewable capacity worldwide this year, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report Renewable Energy Market Update June 2023.

Kenyan solar power company Sun King and investment bank Citi have partnered on a US$130 million securitisation deal.

The Q2 2023 edition of our downstream solar journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download.

As agrivoltaics projects grow in popularity, PV Tech Premium gives a look at four countries - Germany, the US, France and Australia - and Africa that have embraced the technology.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo explores the challenges and opportunities for the region’s burgeoning green hydrogen sector.

Global solar energy investment will surpass oil for the first time in 2023 as PV leads the charge in a projected 24% increase in clean energy investment compared with 2021.

NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC), a joint venture between renewables developer ACWA Power, gas company Air Products and the futuristic city project NEOM, has reached financial close on a Saudi green hydrogen plant with US$8.4 billion.

Sungrow has signed an agreement to supply 2.1GW worth of inverters to the Al Shuaibah PV project in Saudi Arabia, which will be the largest solar farm in the world once it reaches operations.