Featured in Reimagining a technology leader – 05-2017

Low tenders, high expectations

With the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) Scaling Solar auctions in Zambia drawing bids as low as $0.0602/kWh last summer, from First Solar and France’s Neoen SAS – on top of expectations that Algeria may soon start tendering 4 GW of capacity – some proponents of PV are salivating at the prospect of ever-lower prices. However, a […]

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Brian Publicover

09 May 2017

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With the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) Scaling Solar auctions in Zambia drawing bids as low as $0.0602/kWh last summer, from First Solar and France’s Neoen SAS – on top of expectations that Algeria may soon start tendering 4 GW of capacity – some proponents of PV are salivating at the prospect of ever-lower prices. However, a …

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