Africa

Sahel summit backs ‘Desert to Power’ plan to bring solar to 60 million

An African Development Bank (AfDB) initiative that wants to install 10GW of solar energy across the Sahel by 2025 was endorsed by G5 Sahel heads of state at a summit held last week in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Sep 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, France, Europe, Africa, North America, AfDB, G5 Sahel, Christian Kaboré, Akinwumi Adesina

ACWA’s ‘record’ bid wins 250MW Scaling Solar duo in Ethiopia

Saudi Arabian energy developer ACWA Power has won a 250MW duo of World Bank-backed solar projects in eastern Ethiopia.

Sep 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, world bank, international finance corporation, Africa, Scaling Solar, tenders, ACWA Power, Arabia Saudi, pv projects

Angola eyeing 600MW solar market within three years

Angola is expecting to kickstart its dormant solar sector by deploying several hundred megawatts worth of projects within three years, a top government official has said.

Sep 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Africa, subsaharan africa, Angola, luanda, policy, bsw, Baptista Borges, Intersolar

Zimbabwe launches 235 MW solar tender

The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe has issued a request for proposal to seek partners for the development and construction of seven solar parks, with a combined generation capacity of 235 MW, plus two mini-hydro power projects.

Sep 10, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, tender, Africa, Zimbabwe, Infrastructure Development Bank, mini-hydro power plants, Fortune Chasi

RPCS partners with Nurturing Minds to bring e-readers to solar-powered girls’ school in Tanzania

RP Construction Services (RPCS) announced earlier this week the launch of a campaign to bring e-readers to the Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement (SEGA) school in Morogoro, Tanzania, with the help of Nurturing Minds, a U.S.-based non-profit organization.

Sep 9, 2019 // Solar, USA, Africa, North America, RPCS, SEGA, Morogoro, Tanzania, Nurturing Minds, Laura DeDominicis

Nigeria powers up Africa’s ‘largest off-grid solar hybrid’

The latest project to be switched on in Nigeria’s solar electrification programme for universities is also thought to be the largest ‘hybrid’ plant of its kind on the African continent so far, inaugurated this week at Bayero University Kano (BUK).

Sep 8, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, solar pv, off-grid solar, Africa, microgrid, Nigeria, off-grid pv, renewable integration, rural electrification

PV waste: 28 tons collected in Panama and Senegal

The PV Cycle Association collects and recycles PV waste. Having treated more than 30,000 tons since its creation, it estimates 150,000 tons of PV modules will reach the end of their lifecycle by 2030.

Sep 5, 2019 // Solar, Latin america, Europe, Africa, PV Cycle Association, PV waste, Bertrand Lempkowicz, Senegal

Namibia and Botswana mull 20-year, 5 GW solar push

The governments of the two African nations are considering deploying huge volumes of generation capacity over two decades. The project, still in its initial phase, is being supported by the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy.

Sep 5, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, eskom, WEF

Africa’s ‘largest’ solar-plus-wind-plus-storage project unveiled

Japanese developer Eurus Energy and Australian-headquartered wind developer Windlab have signed a deal with Kenyan authorities to develop an 80MW solar-plus-wind-plus-storage facility in central Kenya.

Sep 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, Windlab, solar-plus-wind-plus-storage, Africa, Eurus Energy

Scatec reaches commercial operation for another 112 MW of capacity

The Norwegian developer has opened plants in Ukraine and Egypt. Scatec Solar recently announced it managed to triple energy production in the last year.

Sep 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Tariffs, Raymond Carlsen, Scatec Solar, Ukraine, Europe, Asia, Africa, Egypt, Oslo

BBOXX closes US$50 million funding round led by Mitsubishi

BBOXX has successfully closed a US$50 million Series D funding round that will see the next generation utility company accelerate its global expansion efforts.

Aug 29, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Germany, Europe, Africa, bboxx, mitsubishi, Mansoor Hamayun, PowerGen Renewable Energy, Rafiki Power, E.on SE

Zimbabwe mine eyes solar amid national power crisis

Caledonia Mining wants to build a solar power plant at its Blanket gold mine in southern Zimbabwe to ward off the worst from the country's increasingly volatile power supply.

Aug 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Africa, Zimbabwe, caledonia, blanket mine, zesa, South Africa, escom, mining

Various joint ventures complete 195MW of PV projects in Egypt’s Benban

A joint venture between Elsewedy Electric and EDF, along with Scatec Solar and its respective partners, have both commissioned PV projects near Benban, Egypt with a combined generation capacity of 195MW.

Aug 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Scatec Solar, EDF, Asia, Africa, Benban, Egypt, Ahmad El Mokadem, elsewedy

Mali launches tender for solar-plus-storage

The country’s agency for rural electrification is seeking proposals for a 1.3 MW solar project and a 1.5 MW/2 MWh storage system.

Aug 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, solar-plus-storage, Africa, Mali, Amader, Islamic Development Bank, Akuo Kita Solar

Various joint ventures complete 195MW of PV projects in Egypt’s Benban

Aug 20, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Scatec Solar, EDF, Asia, Africa, Elsewedy Electric and EDF, Benban, Egypt, Ahmad El Mokadem

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