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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...

Predicting the I-V characteristics of PV systems under partial shading

A research group from Tunisia’s Carthage University has developed a method of analytically determining the characteristic I-V profile of a PV system under partial shading. Described in...

Solar power firm Redavia seals energy deal at EPZ

Regional solar energy company Redavia has ventured into the Kenyan market after signing an energy deal with Exotic EPZ. Redavia designs, manufactures, installs and maintains...

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Goldman expects global solar installations set to rise to 914 Gigawatts (Gw) in 2030

  Policymakers in some of the world’s largest economies are reducing support for solar power generation. Even so, Goldman Sachs Research expects rapid growth in...

Germany’s solar industry warns against subsidy cuts for rooftop installations

Germany’s solar industry has raised concerns over a proposal by Economy Minister Katherina Reiche to end feed-in subsidies for new small-scale rooftop photovoltaic (PV)...

141MW solar project proposal submitted to Australia’s EPBC Act

ACE Power and Osaka Gas Energy Australia have joined forces to develop the 141MWdc Forbes Solar Farm, which is proposed for central New South...

Swiss pilot surpasses solar-powered plane altitude record

The SolarStratos plane made the landmark flight from Sion airport in southwest Switzerland on Tuesday, taking advantage of warm air thermals to go beyond...