Published on: Oct 25, 2026. Even the largest solar-storage microgrid in the world keeps a thermal power plant on standby. That detail says more about the real state of utility-scale solar than any headline figure. In September 2026, the Red Sea multi-utility project in Saudi Arabia was reported to have entered full commercial operation, with
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
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
Published on: July 01, 2026. When analyzing the Saudi Arabia solar landscape, there is a specific kind of optimism that surrounds large-scale project announcements. Numbers are published. Targets are set. International consortia sign agreements. Press releases describe gigawatts, investment pipelines, and transformation timelines. The ambition is genuine. The financing is real. The political will exists.