Desert Solar Initiative to Make Africa a Renewable Energy Powerhouse Solar projects stretching across the Sahel region in Africa are expected to connect 250 million people with electricity by tapping into the region’s abundant solar resource. The details of the “Desert to Power Initiative” have been outlined as part of the Paris Agreement climate change talks at COP24 in Katowice, Poland, currently taking place. | France BayWa r.e. Sells 41 MWp Lacs Médocains Solar Park to Sonnedix and Allianz Global Investors BayWa r.e. has sold the Lacs Médocains Solar Park, located in the French commune of Hourtin, about 50 km northwest of Bordeaux, to two buyers. With a total capacity of around 41,2 MWp the whole solar park can supply more than 20,000 households with green power. |