There is a loss category in every solar PV feasibility study that looks small, gets approved without discussion, and then quietly erodes performance for 25 years. It is not soiling. It is not thermal derating. It is not panel degradation. It is the resistive loss in the DC cabling — the energy dissipated as heat […]
Published on: Sep 12, 2026. The numbers that define a market transformation are usually announced gradually — a gigawatt here, a procurement round there, a record tariff celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. South Africa’s solar transformation did not unfold gradually. It accelerated. In March 2022, South Africa had 983 MW of rooftop solar capacity. By
The handover certificate is signed. The EPC contractor shakes hands with the project owner. The monitoring system shows green across every inverter. While everything looks perfect on paper, the traditional industrial solar PV commissioning process often harbors a silent threat. The Performance Ratio calculation, run quickly against the irradiance data from the previous day, falls
There is a trend of PV Panel degradation that appears in the performance data of almost every industrial solar installation in MENA — so gradual that it rarely triggers a conversation, so consistent that it never generates an alarm, and so financially significant that it deserves to be at the center of every long-term solar
Published on: Aug 20, 2026. There is a number that changed the conversation about solar + storage in Africa permanently. Seven cents per kilowatt-hour. That is the price at which a 100 MW solar farm with large battery storage in Mauritius is now delivering reliable electricity — a price that was considered impossible for solar
The choice between string vs central inverters is almost never made by the person who will spend the next 25 years living with the consequences. It is made at the design stage — by an EPC contractor working within a budget, using equipment they know well, optimizing for installation speed and procurement simplicity. The project
Published on: Aug 08, 2026. Two projects. One country. One month. A new benchmark for solar energy in Africa. In the summer of 2026, the Obelisk project in Egypt inaugurated its first phase in Qena — 500 MW of solar generation capacity combined with 200 MWh of battery energy storage, developed by Scatec and described
Every solar equipment presentation in MENA right now includes the same slide about bifacial solar panels. A bifacial panel diagram. An arrow pointing to the back surface. A yield gain figure somewhere between 5% and 30% additional production from reflected light captured on the rear side of the module. A cost comparison showing that the
There is a moment in the first year of supervising an industrial solar PV installation when you realize that intuition is not enough. You walk the site. You look at the panels. Everything seems fine. The monitoring dashboard is green. The monthly production numbers are close to projection — not exactly right, but close enough
Published on: July 22, 2026. There is a number that should be at the center of every conversation about green hydrogen in MENA and Africa right now. It is not the billions of dollars announced. It is not the gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity planned. It is not the export targets set by governments from Morocco