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28 May 2026

As renewables scale up, the limitations of transmission and grid systems are becoming more visible — and will decide the pace of renewable growth across the region.

27 April 2026

How the rapid scale-up of solar and battery storage is reshaping prices and reliability across US wholesale electricity markets.

18 May 2026

As solar volumes rise and competition intensifies, factory testing and module sorting are increasingly used as indicators of quality in African markets.

July 2026

SgurrEnergy authored IFC’s landmark guide, Utility Scale Solar Power Plants: A Guide for Developers and Investors. More than a decade on, its core principles — staged de-risking, an independent energy yield reported at P90, a retention- and guarantee-backed contract package, and a financial model that tells the truth — still define what makes a solar project bankable.

Jul 2024

This paper is written to fill a void created by lack of knowledge in conducting annual operation and maintenance appraisal and its importance in PV solar power plants. Operation and Maintenance(O&M) appraisal plays a vital role in maintaining the predicted energy yield, by evaluating the existing maintenance methodologies and proposing the remedial preventive maintenance plan to increase the life span of the plant. However, it is often seen that due to budgetary constraints, lack of knowledge of performing the evaluation, annual O&M appraisal are not undertaken.

May 2024

The worldwide hydrogen sector is currently experiencing a substantial shift, primarily motivated by the pressing need to eliminate carbon emissions from various businesses and mitigate the impact of greenhouse gases. Hydrogen, widely recognised as the environmentally friendly energy carrier of the future, is increasingly being acknowledged as a flexible and sustainable option. Nations globally are making significant investments in the development of hydrogen production, storage, and distribution infrastructure to fully exploit its potential. Dominantly nations have put forward the strategies to replace grey hydrogen used in refineries, fertilizer’s and steel industries by green hydrogen.