Africa

ACWA Power, a leading programmer, investor and operator of power generation and also desalinated water plants worldwide, announced Wednesday that its South African Bokpoort CSP plant has come to be the very first eco-friendly facility in the continent to complete a complete week of continual night and day operation.

France's Neoen SA has begun building on its 41-MWp Metoro solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) project in northeastern Mozambique.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has secured a contract from M Couto Alves (MCA) to supply crucial electrical facilities to incorporate Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest solar project to Angola's transmission network.

Sterling and Wilson has actually announced that its HES department has signed an EPC agreement to construct a solar plus battery storage crossbreed nuclear power plant in Niger.

Risen Energy has landed a 1.5 GW bifacial module supply manage an unrevealed, yet "popular" independent power producer.

The Spanish energy business Elecnor has just finished the construction of one of the two photovoltaic solar energy plants prepared in the Upper West area. The installment, situated in the community of Lawra, has a capability of 6.5 MWp. The park was commissioned by the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

French renewable resource company Voltalia has been granted the agreement to construct a 12MW solar power plant at Blanket Mine in Zimbabwe.

Togo plans to produce 50% of its electrical energy from sustainable resources by 2030. Among the difficulties to be addressed is the style of quality solar systems. With this in mind, the nation has actually decided to obtain software program for sizing solar energy tools. The program called "Kya-SolDesign" was developed by Kya-Energy Group.

South Africa-based Marula Platinum Mine has issued an ask for information (RfI) for establishing a 10 MW solar project to power its procedures.

The federal government of Tunisia has introduced a call for tenders for the building of solar power plants with a total ability of 60MWp. According to the North African country Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mines, the solar power stations will be built each with a capacity of in between 1 and also 10 MWp.

Eos Energy Storage LLC (" Eos"), a leading producer of safe, affordable as well as long-duration zinc battery storage space systems, today introduced a growth of its collaboration with Nayo Tropical Technology Ltd. (" Nayo"), a leading West African mini-grid design, purchase, as well as building and construction (" EPC") firm. Eos will certainly deploy additional systems of its signature Aurora EnergyBlock ™ systems, rated at 125kW/500kWh, to 4 country microgrid projects in Nigeria in the first quarter of 2021.

Burkina Faso has simply established a solar panel production device. Called "Faso Energy", the center situated in the funding Ouagadougou can producing 30 MW of photovoltaic panels per year.

Tunisia Launches Second Round Of Tenders Under Authorization Regime Offering 70 MW PV Capacity

Financial options business Solarise Africa has actually elevated US$ 10 million to sustain its investment in solar PV projects in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. The business has actually also set its sights on more "challenging" territories, like the DR Congo, Chad and Sierra Leone. CEO Jan Albert Valk spoke with pv magazine about the company's plans, as well as the "overwhelming" demand for more renewable resource investment on the African continent.

The country's regulator has approved a government plan to tender for 11.81 GW of power generation capacity on top of the 2 GW tender opened last month.