Africa

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

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?

Ghana is on track to achieve its goal of universal access to electricity by 2025 with the successful implementation of the Bui Hydro-Solar PV Hybrid system.

Madagascar has launched invitations to tender for two solar PV project with a combined capacity of 210MW.

Nordic independent power producer (IPP) Scatec has secured US$102 million in funding to support its Release by Scatec platform.

Globeleq has purchased Scatec’s 52.5% share in the 41MW Central Solar de Mocuba solar PV plant in Mozambique.

BioPower Operations has announced plans to build a 1GW solar power facility in the South African state of Mpumalanga.

NextSource Materials has completed work at its solar-hybrid power plant to power its Molo graphite mine in southern Madagascar.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's energy company Nuru has secured US$40 million for the construction of 13.7 MWp.