Africa & Middle East

January 18, 2023
UAE-owned renewables company Masdar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and a joint development agreement with Zambia state-owned utility Zesco to develop 2GW of solar PV in the African country.
January 18, 2023
Middle Eastern renewable energy company AMEA Power has signed an agreement with the Ivory Coast government for a solar PV project.
January 17, 2023
Module manufacturer JA Solar has partnered with UAE-based developer AMEA Power to supply modules to a 560MW solar PV in Egypt.
January 16, 2023
Solar PV will play a more important role in Nigeria’s power supply as it plans to meet the growing needs of all sectors of its economy through renewables. 
January 16, 2023
Global clean energy company Masdar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with four Dutch companies, including the Port of Amsterdam, to explore strategies for establishing a green hydrogen supply chain from Abu Dhabi to the Netherlands.
January 16, 2023
Higher interest rates in the second half of the year slowed down corporate funding in the global solar sector to US$24.1 billion in 2022, according to research from Mercom Capital Group.
January 9, 2023
Sungrow, the Chinese-headquartered inverter and energy storage system supplier, has signed a contract with Samsung C&T to provide its inverter solutions to an 814MW solar PV project in Qatar.
January 9, 2023
African power development company Ncondezi Energy has secured a land agreement for its 300MW solar PV project in Tete, Mozambique.
January 4, 2023
Israel-headquartered smart energy technology company SolarEdge has acquired the entire share capital of UK-based Hark Systems, an energy analytics and internet-of-things (IoT) company. SolarEdge said that the acquisition will enable it to offer its corporate and industrial (C&I) customers increased capacity to manage their energy assets.
December 30, 2022
From volatile component prices and shipment challenges to an energy crisis that has supercharged solar deployment in Europe, 2022 has been a turbulent year for the global PV industry. Here, PV Tech runs down its top ten stories of the past 12 months.

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