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PV Talk: Wood Mackenzie’s Yana Hryshko argues that MENA is emerging as a solar manufacturing hub, driven, in part, by Chinese partnerships.

Solar manufacturer United Solar has launched a polysilicon manufacturing facility in Oman, adding 100,000 metric tons of annual production capacity.

GameChange Solar is to supply its Genius trackers for the 1.2GW Bisha Solar PV Independent Power Plant in Saudi Arabia.

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

Solar PV solutions provider Nextpower has finalised its Saudi joint venture formation, Nextpower Arabia, which is building a manufacturing facility in the country.

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.

The consortium building the Al Sadawi PV power plant in Saudi Arabia has reached financial close on the 2GW project.

An ageing 545MW wind farm in Egypt is to be reborn as a 3GW PV and wind hybrid facility under a provisional repowering plan agreed last week.

A consortium consisting of CIP, AP Møller Capital and TE H2 has partnered to build 1GW of renewables to produce green ammonia in Morocco.

The Saudi Arabian government’s power procurement arm has invited bids for up to 3GW of new solar PV capacity.