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Voltalia Achieves 2024 Renewable Capacity Milestone
Voltalia SA powers up, hitting its 2024 target with 3.3 GW capacity, marking a 14% growth and strong global expansion plans to reach 5 GW by 2027!
Jan 8, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, Voltalia SA
$20 million solar project unfinished south of Medicine Hat
A brand-new solar project south of Medicine Hat is verifying renewable energy can work in combination with oil and also gas advancement.
Oct 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Canada, North America, Enbridge, Medicine Hat, Alberta Solar One, Lauren Andre
Savannah Energy sings pact with Chad to develop 500 MW renewable projects
The projects will provide electricity to the Doba Oil Project and also the towns of Moundou as well as Doba in Southern Chad, and also the capital city, N'Djamena. Savannah Energy claimed it looks to fund the renewable projects from a combination of its own inside created cash flows as well as project particular debt.
Jun 2, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, BESS, Africa, chad, solar farm, Battery Energy Storage System, Savannah Energy, Andrew Knott, Djerassem le Bemadjiel, Doba, Kome, Mark Matthews, Moundou, renewable projects
Axian Secures €84M for Senegal's Largest Solar Project
Axian Energy secures €84M for Western Africa's largest solar project, boosting Senegal's renewable energy capacity and empowering 235,000 residents with sustainable power by 2026.
Nov 14, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV Power Plant, Axian Energy, Western Africa
Husk Power Raises $103M for World's Biggest Mini-Grid Expansion
Husk Power Systems raises $103 million to expand their award-winning mini-grids to India, Nigeria, DRC, and other African countries. Solar and battery mini-grids will bring affordable, reliable power to households and small businesses. STOA Infra & Energy SAS leads investment round.
Oct 26, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Grids, India, Asia, Africa, mini-grids, Husk Power
BayWa r.e. goes for gold with solar-plus-storage mine project in Mali
European renewables developer Baywa r.e. will deploy a solar-plus-storage project for a goldmine in Mali.
Oct 15, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, solar-plus-storage, Africa, baywa r.e., co-location, suntrance, Tobias Kriete, juwi
Togo Solar Plant With Jakson As EPC Inaugurated
The Head of state of Togo, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé inaugurated a 50MWp Solar Power Plant in the West African nation. The Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Solar Power Plant Project is being created by AMEA Power, Dubai and developed, set up, commissioned, and executed by Jakson Group from India. The West African Development Bank and Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) given concessional car loans for the project.
Jun 23, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Africa, amea power, Jakson, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, Solar Power Plant Project, Togo solar
Bboxx, Orange launch solar mini-grid project in the DRC under anchor business community model
Off-grid pay-as-you-go solar provider Bboxx has actually partnered with telecommunications business Orange to introduce a new solar mini-grid project to assist speed up clean energy gain access to for households across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Jul 4, 2022 // Plants, Grids, bboxx, Orange, mini-grid, sub saharan africa, anchor business community, telecoms
Mauritian fund spends $3 million in P2P solar expert Sun Exchange
Sun Exchange has actually closed a $4 million Series-A funding round by obtaining a $3 million investment from ARPF, a Mauritian private equity fund. The peer-to-peer solar leasing platform claimed it will certainly make use of the funds to help its participants release solar solutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Jun 12, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, South Africa, Sun Exchange, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Mauritius, ARPF, William Barry, Adam Draper
MCA Opens Africa’s Largest Off-Grid Solar-BESS Park in Angola
MCA just unveiled Africa’s biggest off-grid solar-plus-storage project: a 31.9MW solar plant with batteries in Angola’s Lobito Corridor—bringing steadier power where the grid can’t.
May 7, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Africa, Angola, PV Power Plant, MCA
Universal energy access simply obtained harder
This year marks an uniquely critical juncture when driving to universal accessibility to inexpensive, trusted, lasting, and also modern power. The large disturbance triggered by Covid-19 makes complex the outlook to 2030, which is the time frame for reaching UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, composes Rohit Khanna, supervisor of the World Bank's Energy Sector Management Assistance Program.
Jul 16, 2020 // Opinions, WORLD, covid-19, Rohit Khanna
Scatec’s Release to deploy 64 MW solar, batteries in West Africa
Scatec’s Release business signed leases to deliver 64 MW of solar with 10 MWh of batteries across Liberia and Sierra Leone, boosting reliable off-grid power.
Oct 16, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, solar-plus-storage, Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, Scatec Release,, Liberia,
Eskom looking to renewables as S Africa is reducing coal power
South African utility Eskom Holdings SOC will close down roughly 30% of its existing coal-fired power generation ability over the following years and repurpose some of the websites for solar energy production.
Aug 19, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Africa, eskom, South Africa
African apparel manufacturer United Aryan sets up 1.8-MWp rooftop PV system
Nairobi-based apparel maker United Aryan EPZ (UAL) revealed today that it has inaugurated a 1.8-MWp rooftop solar array, saying that it the largest system of its kind in East Africa.
Mar 16, 2022 // Rooftop PV, Africa, United Aryan EPZ, UAL, rooftop solar array
New methods for fault detection revealed at EU PVSEC
session. Chantelle Clohessy, from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; and A.K Vidal de Oliveira, from Brazil’s Fotovoltaica UFSC solar institute,
Sep 11, 2019 // Technology, Solar, France, Engie, pv modules, Europe, eu pvsec, Marseille, Jay Lin, PV Guider, UVFL, Stijn Scheerlinck, Chantelle Clohessy, Nelson Mandela University