IFC Backing For Malawi Solar & Storage Project
Voltalia Secures IFC To Arrange Finance For 55 MW Solar & 10 MW Storage Facility In Africa’s Malawi
French renewable energy company Voltalia says it has got the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to come on board to help arrange financing for the company’s planned solar and storage project having 55 MW and 10 MW capacity respectively, in Africa’s Malawi.
Africa PV News Snippets
Serengeti Energy Switches On 21 MW AC Solar Capacity In Malawi, & More From OPEC Fund, SolarX, Nuru Sasu, Rgreen & Echosys
Serengeti Energy has brought online 21 MW AC PV in Malawi; Niger’s RANAA gets $25 million loan from OPEC Fund for 10 MW solar plant; SolarX to provide solar power for Orange Côte d’Ivoire; Nuru Sasu raises $1.5 million for off-grid solar hyb.
Malawi Switches On 20 MW AC Solar+Storage Plant
JCM Power & InfraCo Africa Energize Golomoti Solar & Storage Facility In Malawi
Canadian independent power producer (JCM Power) and equity investor InfraCo Africa have formally commissioned the ‘1st’ utility scale grid connected hybrid solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Malawi.
60 MW Solar Plant Online In Malawi
Malawi Switches On Its 1st Utility Scale Solar Power Plant
The 1st solar PV plant to connect to the national grid in Malawi, 60 MW AC Salima Solar was recently inaugurated by the country’s President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on 170-hectare site in Salima district.
37 MW AC Malawi Solar Project Backed By ATI
Africa Trade Insurance Agency Providing Liquidity Cover To 37 MW AC Solar Project In Malawi Being Developed By International Consortium Of ResponsAbility & Phanes Group
The 37 MW AC solar project that has now secured 10-year liquidity support from the ATI, is designed to help hydropower generation dependent Malawi to explore consistent and clean power supply in the form of solar power.
46 MW Malawi Solar Project Achieves Financial Closure
$67 Million Raised By Phanes Group For 46 MW Solar Power Project In Malawi With Partners ResponsAbility & OPIC; Completion Of Construction Under First Phase Targeted For March 2020
Drought prone Malawi in Africa is dependent on hydropower generation to meet its electricity needs where only 15% of population has access to electricity, and the 46 MW solar power plant will help the country in its aim to provide electricity to 30% by 2030, said Phanes Group.
USTDA Grant For Feasibility Study For 40 MW Malawi
JCM Power SPV Golomoti JCM Solar Corporation Gets USTDA Grant For Power Engineers To Conduct Feasibility Study For Solar Power Plant With 17.5 MW To 40 MW Capacity
Having won 2 solar power projects in Malawi’s first solar auction process, JCM Power is developing the 60 MW Salima solar power plant for which it signed a PPA with ESCOM in September 2018.
Malawi’s ESCOM Signs PPA For 60 MW Solar Project
60 MW Salima Solar Project, Among Malawi’s First Commercial-Scale PV Plants, To Sell Clean Power To National Utility ESCOM
InfraCo Africa says the 60 MW Salima Solar Power Plant will be among the first commercial scale solar PV power plants in Malawi.
Consultant Sought For PV Roadmap In Malawi
South Africa based Council for Scientific & Industrial Research Seeking Consultant To Prepare Solar PV Technology Roadmap For Malawi
South Africa based Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has issued a tender through which it plans to hire the services of a consultant who could develop a PV technology roadmap (TRM) for Malawi.
