The Egyptian Government will commission by the end of 2019 all the power plants that make up the Benban large solar photovoltaic park, with a total capacity of 1.65 GW, Egyptian Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr has announced. Nineteen solar parks in the Benban complex have already been commissioned. Altogether, these facilities […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced support for a research in Morocco on the integration of solar energy microgrid into ‘smart buildings’ in partnership with National Instruments. The Moroccan solar energy research is among the 49 final projects selected by the USAID Global Development Lab from over 650 worldwide scientific proposals. The […]
The city of Tiaret in western Algeria has been rocked by violent clashes as citizens take to the streets torching tires and protesting water cuts. Videos shared on social media showed Tiaret citizens blocking roads and denouncing 20 days of water outage, after a dam that supplies the city went empty. Algeria’s media, mostly mouthpieces […]
