Solar rental company Gosolr has warned that radically increased electricity tariffs with a larger contribution from fixed ...

One of South Africa’s largest electrical product distributors warned that planned import tariffs on renewable equipment could ...

As the South African solar photovoltaic industry enters 2026, the sector has moved beyond the reactive “crisis-mode” installations of previous years toward a phase of sophisticated, market-led growth.

JUWI Renewable Energies, the South African arm of German construction group JUWI, has signed two solar module supply agreements with Chinese module manufacturer JA Solar for a 220MW solar PV portfolio ...

The Global Solar Council’s Africa market outlook report says the continent saw its fastest year for solar growth to date in 2025. Its medium-term outlook forecasts Africa to install over 31.5 GW of ...

Africa reached 23.4GW of operational solar capacity at the end of 2025, according to AFSIA. Image: Scatec. Africa added 2.4GW of new solar PV capacity in 2025, pushing its total operational capacity ...

When strips of solar panels arrived in his remote village in northeast Zambia, Damaseke Mwale saw an opportunity. He bought land, built a house and set up businesses including a grocery store and a ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rising diesel prices linked to the Iran war are adding urgency to a shift already underway across Africa to move cellphone towers off fossil fuels and onto solar power. Diesel, ...

A new pilot programme in Diepsloot is helping young South Africans launch micro farming businesses using solar powered ...