Featured in Keep on tracking – 12-2010

A signal for Africa

Cape Verde Islands: Prime Minister Neves has officially opened a solar farm on the islands to produce five megawatts, making it Africas biggest. A 2.5-megawatt system was completed a little earlier. The share of renewables is to reach 25 percent by 2011. The regulating agency also intends to specify a feed-in tariff next year that will make renewables worthwhile for small producers.

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pv magazine

15 Dec 2010

The tropical noonday sun scorches mercilessly, and there’s not a tree in sight to cast a shadow. The wind from the Atlantic whips up the parched earth, covering everything and everyone with fine dust. A gaggle of press teams, politicians and executives waits with African imperturbability until a convoy with a police escort finally comes …

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