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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...

Solar project to more than double Guinea-Bissau generation capacity

The African Biofuel and Renewable Energy Co (Abrec), which promotes renewables and energy efficiency across the continent, has awarded the contract to build Guinea-Bissau’s...

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Australia solar Installation hits 40 GW

An IEA survey of solar power applications in Australia shows that the country installed 5.2 GW of solar capacity in 2024 and reached a...

Versiris Energy completes logistically tricky rooftop solar project

Versiris Energy completed a 575.36-kWDC rooftop solar project for a national commercial retail facility in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Versisis, a commercial solar developer and subsidiary...

Recurrent Energy Sells 275 MW Solar-Plus-Storage Project in New South Wales to European Investor

Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and a global developer of solar and energy storage assets, has finalized the sale of its...

Azerbaijan seeks Chinese help in achieving “green” power dream

Azerbaijan is hoping China can play a big role in helping Baku fulfill its ambitions of building a “green energy corridor” to Europe. Azerbaijani officials...