Global Green USA pledges for $50 billion solar fund

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in early September, the US affiliate of the environment group Green Cross International, Global Green USA, started an initiative for a $50 billion fund to promote solar energy.

e7 receives award for Indonesian rural electrification project
During the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in September, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intern ationalChamber of Commerce (ICC) granted the World Summit Business Award for Sustainable Development Partnerships to a renewable energy project in Indonesia.

Atersa to supply PV systems for 227 villages in Senegal

On August 8, US company AstroPower Inc., located in Newark, New Jersey, announced that its Spanish subsidiary Atersa S.A. will design and install PV systems to power 227 rural villages in Senegal.

Chinese company to set up shop in Uganda

The Chinese PV cell and module manufacturer Shenzhen Topway Co. Ltd. says it is building a module factory in Uganda.

India's CEL to build Sudanese module factory

Central Electronics Ltd. (CEL), an Indian manufacturer of cells and modules, says it has signed a memorandum of agreement with the government of Sudan to transfer the technical know-how to build a monocrystalline module factory.

Namibian company starts module production

The three-year Uganda Photovoltaic Pilot Project for Rural Electrification (UPPPRE) to provide 2,000 off-grid households with PV systems, which was scheduled to end last December, has been extended to September due to funding-flow problems.

Afrisol signs first PVMTI project in Morocco
Afrisol S.A., a PV integrator based in Casablanca, Morocco, signed a $1 million PV credit financing project in the country through the Photovoltaic Market Transformation Initiative (PVMTI) in March.

Microcredit interpretation nearly causes loss of PVMTI funding in Morocco
The first PVMTI project will start as soon as the wording of a Moroccon law on a microcredit financing is changed.

Uganda pilot PV project extended through September

The three-year Uganda Photovoltaic Pilot Project for Rural Electrification (UPPPRE) to provide 2,000 off-grid households with PV systems, which was scheduled to end last December, has been extended to September due to funding-flow problems.

Siemens will electrify 100 villages in Gabon

In February, Siemens AG published a press release about a PV rural electrification project for 100 villages in Gabon. But the first systems were actually installed more than half a year ago. "It was probably released that late due to the sales of Siemens Solar," guesses Albin Schneider, regional director for Africa and the Americas at Siemens' Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) unit.

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