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Scatec Solar completes 258 MW Upington project in South Africa

Scatec Solar and partners have grid connected and started commercial operation of the third 86 MW solar plant in Upington, South Africa, completing the...

Guinea Bissau awards contract for Gardete solar power plant project

Guinea Bissau has awarded awarded the contract for construction of Gardete solar power plant project. Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro Corporation won the contract paving way for...

Seychelles to host 5.8 MW of floating PV

Qair, a French independent power producer, has revealed plans to install 5.8 MW of floating solar capacity on a saltwater lagoon in the Seychelles. The...

Bokamoso Solar Park achieves over 1 million incident-free hours

juwi Renewable Energies has achieved an unprecedented 1,006,793 Lost Time Incident (LTI) free hours to end of February 2020 in the construction of the...

AFRICA: Afsia launches awards for solar innovation B

The African Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) plans to award its new AFSIA Solar Awards on July 2, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. These are several...

Greenfields dairy plant to lower carbon emissions with Total Solar DG solar system

Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) has partnered with Greenfields, the largest dairy company in Southeast Asia, to provide solar power for its biggest milk...

CHAD: STE acquires photovoltaic solar power plant for its eastern agency

The water company of Chad (STE) will soon have a photovoltaic solar power plant. The installation is being carried out by Aboussimbil, a Chadian...

SEYCHELLES: Providence solar power plant construction starts in July

The French Independent Power Producer (IPP) Qair (formerly Quadran International) in the Seychelles will begin construction of the Providence floating solar power plant in...

Solar emerging as best bet for West Africa’s future energy mixThe Economic Community of West African States should prioritize the development of solar PV...

The countries of West Africa should make solar PV the “prime source” in their future energy systems as they decarbonize in the decades leading...

Four solar and wind farms to be developed in Uganda

The government of Uganda has announced plans to to build four solar and wind farms in two regions in Uganda. This follows a signed...

Gambia maintains solar ambition

Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company (NAWEC) has completed the preliminary phase of a tender for a 20 MW solar project in the Greater Banjul area...

Designing super-strong solar modules for the tropics

Researchers from Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi and the U.K.’s Teesside University have identified parameters and techniques they say could...

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China’s new renewables pricing mechanism may not give generators the stability they need

Since implementing its renewable energy law in 2005, China has been rapidly rolling out wind and solar power – from 10 gigawatts (GW) per...

Switch Together Solar scheme returns to help Solihull residents save money and cut carbon

A popular scheme that helps people save money on their energy bills while reducing carbon emissions is returning to Solihull. Switch Together Solar brings residents,...

BOOM Power secures second NSIP consent for Fenwick solar plant

The UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has granted consent for a 237.5MW solar PV plant developed by BOOM Power. The UK-based developer will construct the...

Indian PV manufacturers downplay impact of 125% preliminary US countervailing duty

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has proposed a 125.87% preliminary countervailing duty (CVD) on imported Indian solar cells. Several Indian PV manufacturers PV Tech...