Africa

Scatec has secured a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Societe Tunisienne de l'Electricite et du Gaz (STEG) for its 120MW solar plant in Tunisia.

EliTe Solar has commissioned its 5GW PV manufacturing facility in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE) in Egypt.

Egyptian manufacturing firm Kemet has signed a deal with Chinese solar manufacturer GCL Technologies to build a 5GW solar cell and module manufacturing hub in the country.

DNV has forecast that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will add 860GW of new solar PV by 2040.

Africa added 2.4GW of new solar PV capacity in 2025, an accomplishment dubbed by AFSIA CEO John van Zuylen as 'very positive'.

UAE state-run renewables developer Masdar has signed a power purchase agreement for a 150MW solar PV project in Angola.

EBRD and KfW will provide €87 million (US$102.2 million) in debt financing for a 134MWdc solar project in North Macedonia.

UAE-based renewables developer AMEA Power has commissioned a 120MW solar PV plant in the central Tunisian governorate of Kairouan, the country’s largest operational PV project.

Norwegian renewable energy firm Scatec has signed equity deals for a massive solar-plus-storage project in Egypt and begun operations at a site in South Africa.

The Moroccan government has announced plans to build a 30,000MT “green polysilicon” production facility, in partnership with Moroccan renewable energy firm GPM Holding.