africa

  • What does the “staggered financial close process” for Window 3 mean?

    South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has announced the implementation of “a staggered financial close process for Window 3”. The close, as outlined on the REIPPPP's website, was originally scheduled to take place on July 30th 2014, but has since been delayed to November.

  • Weekly Intelligence Brief: August 4 - 11

    Enel Green Power, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office; European Investment Bank, Eskom, African Development Bank, Agence Française de Développement, Development Bank of Southern Africa; Areva.

  • MENA set to spearhead Solar developments as CSP & PV grind to a halt in the western world

    The solar community in the Western world is undergoing radical change in 2012. Falling PV prices and the ending of the DOE loan guarantees in the US have hit the CSP industry hard, making it difficult to secure the necessary political and financial support to continue development.