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Empower Secures Funding for Nigerian Solar Retail Projects
New Energy, a solar developer and impact investor focused on Africa, announced a debt financing agreement to install at least 26 commercial-scale rooftop
Apr 24, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Africa, Nigeria, Empower New Energy
AfDB, Qair Partner on 18-MW Solar Project in Burkina Faso
African Development Bank's Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has signed a financing agreement with French renewable energy company Qair to support
Jul 29, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Burkina Faso, PV Power Plant, Qair, SEFA
Eskom Seeks Bids for 291 MW Solar Power Deals
African utility Eskom is seeking to procure 291 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity through multi-year power purchase agreements (PPAs). The utility has
Aug 14, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, eskom, South Africa
Trinasolar Supplies Battery Storage for Egypt’s Largest Solar Plant
system (BESS) at the Abydos Solar Power Plant in Aswan, Egypt, marking it as Africa's largest single-site solar PV plant. The project includes a 500MW solar PV
Dec 24, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Asia, Africa, Egypt, amea power, PV Power Plant, TrinaSolar, Energy China ZTPC
South Africa opens 6th bidding window of REIPPPP
last week South Africa's Department for Mineral Resource as well as Energy (DMRE) officially opened up the window around six months after winning quotes in the
Apr 12, 2022 // Plants, Storage, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, auctions, Africa, South Africa, tenders, mena, REIPPPP
Shell inks deal to purchase Nigerian solar company Daystar Power
solar installer offering commercial as well as commercial clients in West Africa. The Lagos-based firm exists in four countries and runs over 300 power
Sep 29, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, Nigeria, shell, PV Power Plant, Daystar Power
BBOXX expands into Nigerian market, targets 20m customers by 2030
Africa's most populated nation, Nigeria has extremely reduced electrification rates, with 45% of Nigerians living without accessibility to electricity, rising to 74% in rural areas.
BBOXX will certainly look for to roll out its 'plug-and-play', off-grid Solar Home System, targeting small company owners and also market traders particularly.
Procedures have currently begun in southwest Nigeria, with the first shop opening in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. BBOXX will also aim to serve country communities in various other states consisting of rural Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti soon.
" As the biggest economic climate in Africa, it is widely crucial that clean power access is accelerated in Nigeria," said Mansoor Hamayun, CEO and co-founder of BBOXX.
" This most current launch is most definitely a step in the ideal instructions as well as we have an enthusiastic pipe in advance."
Last month, BBOXX and also University College London (UCL) launched a report that stated access to off-grid electrical power must be seen as a vital mechanism to drive rural growth and improve financial wellness and living criteria in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
In February, worldwide power titan EDF acquired a 23% stake in BBOXX's Kenyan company.
Oct 28, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, bboxx, Mansoor Hamayun, Nigeria, off grid, offgrid solar
Scatec increased by brand-new hydropower possessions and also conclusion of solar parks
begin on solar projects in markets such as Brazil, Tunisia, Pakistan and South Africa. The business's under-construction PV portfolio has a consolidated capacity of
May 4, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Raymond Carlsen, Scatec, IPP
FTC Solar to Supply Solar Trackers for 504 MW Project in Arizona
FTC Solar introduced that it had been awarded its very first project in Africa given that entering the marketplace previously this year. The project,
Nov 11, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Arizona, North America, ftc solar, solar tracker systems, Voyager tracker
Sterling and Wilson Wins Solar Plus Battery Storage Contract
and Diesel Genset based hybrid nuclear power plant in Agadez, Niger, in West Africa.
The project contract has actually been authorized by Sterling and Wilson in
Oct 16, 2020 // Storage, solar plus storage, hybrid, Africa, International, Niger, sterling and wilson, Deepak Thakur
Masdar, Infinity Joint Venture Powers COP 27 with Green Energy
comparable services to various other cities in Egypt and also throughout Africa, as we move on in our trip to offer sustainable energy remedies to the whole
Nov 8, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Masdar, sustainable energy, Sharm El-Sheikh, COP 27, Infinity Joint Venture, Infinity Power, Nayer Fouad, UNFCCC
MIGA backs CrossBoundary with $495m guarantees for African energy expansion
than 100 distributed renewable-energy and storage projects across up to 20 African countries. The guarantees—issued at platform level rather than
Jul 24, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, MIGA, DRE
Nuru: Lighting Up DRC's Urban Areas with Solar
a renewable energy-powered metrogrid company in Africa, has secured over $40 million in Series B equity funding and expects to close an additional $28 million
Jul 4, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, ifc, Africa, GEAPP, Nuru
Envision Powers South Africa’s Largest Battery Storage Project
batteries for the 257-MW/1,028-MWh Oasis 1 energy storage cluster in South Africa. This project includes the installation of AC and DC energy storage systems
Dec 16, 2024 // Storage, Africa, South Africa, Envision Energy
Pele Energy Secures $31M to Expand African Renewables
will also facilitate the expansion of the company's operations across South Africa and the broader African continent, aligning with its mission to drive
Mar 6, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, Pele Energy Group







