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Cheaper wholesale solar equipment through $10m group-buying fund in Nigeria

Amid repeated calls for innovative approaches to unlock the potential of African solar, two impact investors have committed $5 million each to back an...

African Energy Week highlights lack of support for renewables

The year's African Energy Week event closed with the message the continent is not ready to abandon fossil fuels, with one speaker casting doubt...

South Africa Allocates 2.58 GW of Wind and Solar Projects in REIPPP Auction

South Africa has selected 25 wind and solar power projects to be developed by private developers under its renewable energy independent power producer procurement...

SIMA Launches Energy Access Relief Fund to Support Off-Grid Solar Companies

Social Investment Managers and Advisors (SIMA) has launched the Energy Access Relief Fund (EARF) with a first close of $68 million and a target...

South Africa raises threshold for distributed generation to 100 MW

South Africa‘s government has officially raised the licensing threshold for embedded generation projects from 1 MW to 100 MW. The new measure – schedule 2...

African coal plant operator turns to solar for new power JV

Mozambique-based coal operator Ncondezi Energy has announced a joint venture (JV) with South African-based NESA to target South Africa’s C&I solar and storage markets. The...

InfraCo, Solvéo secure 25-year PPA for solar park in Guinea

Infraco Africa, a unit of U.K.-based Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and Solveo Energie, a unit of French renewable energy developer Solveo, have secured...

ArcelorMittal seeks solar PPAs for 150 MW in South Africa

ArcelorMittal South Africa, a unit of Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal Holdings, has invited independent power producers (IPP) to submit project proposals for solar parks with a...

Algeria’s first mounting system manufacturer

SPS, an Algerian metal sandwich panel manufacturer, has decided to team up with Dubai-based mounting system provider Qi-energy to make  mounting structures for PV...

Kenya’s largest dairy producer wants to buy solar

New Kenya Cooperative Creameries finalized the preliminary phase of a tender this week to purchase electricity from a solar facility that will be built...

TUNISIA: IPPs designated to produce 70 MWp from 16 solar power plants

The Tunisian government has just selected several independent power producers (IPPs) for the implementation of a solar project to produce 70 MWp of electricity...

Parabolic bifacial module with active cooling system

Researchers at Morocco’s Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (USMBA) have designed a bifacial crystalline PV module based on a reflector technology, with an embedded active...

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Jinko unveils 520 kWh C&I battery storage system

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Trina Storage Earns Sixth Consecutive BloombergNEF Tier 1 Ranking in Q2 2025

Trina Storage has been named as the Global Tier 1 Energy Storage Manufacturer in BloombergNEF (BNEF)'s Energy Storage Tier 1 List for Q2 2025....

Eku Energy acquires Bluestone BESS pipeline

Battery energy storage system (BESS) firm Eku Energy has acquired Bluestone Energy’s BESS portfolio. Eku Energy has taken on seven planned BESS projects from renewable...