Bidders not lighting up over Masen's 400 MW photovoltaic power stations

• MOROCCO - Makhzen keeping tabs on Obaid Amrane's rising star.

• GUINEA - Mamadou Diallo, from the embassy to the World Bank.

• ZIMBABWE - John Paradza, a key player in Mnangagwe's battle for the youth vote.

• LIBYE - Khalid Chaouki, former Italian MP growing his Tripoli business network.

Timetable not only snag facing 1000 MW solar power hopefuls 

Since postponing the submission of applications for what will be Algeria's first major solar power sites, the country's authorities have yet to set a new date. On top of this, there are a number of regulatory and financial pitfalls facing potential developers.

France's Voltalia takes the lead on Masen's troubled Noor PV II solar programme  Free

The French company, which belongs to the Mulliez family empire, is to build the two biggest photovoltaic power plants in the Noor PV II programme which renewable energy agency Masen has been battling to get under way.

Still no light at end of tunnel for 1,000 MW solar project 

Several solar energy specialists, including Scatec and Engie, are studying the call for tenders that Algeria issued in December. But the project specifications are missing, and the minister for energy transition lacks the clout of his counterpart at the energy ministry, not to mention of Sonatrach and Sonelgaz.

In Dakhla, Akhannouch, Benjelloun and Windvision are powering a secret wind turbine project 

Shortly before becoming prime minister, Aziz Akhannouch launched a major wind power project in Dakhla, Western Sahara. To create this 200MW wind farm, his company Green of Africa, co-owned with the banker Othman Benjelloun, has embarked on an ambitious project with Belgian-Dutch company Windvision.

Bakkoury's Noor PV II solar project fails to electrify candidates 

Sustainable energy agency Masen has refused to extend its call for candidates for the Noor PV II project to build solar farms totalling 400 MW. Only nine candidates, including three foreign majors, have come forward.

EDF's Noor Midelt solar plant still shrouded in clouds 

The ONEE has still not signed the power purchase agreements needed to launch the vast solar power park that EDF Renouvelables has been hired to build for Morocco's sustainable energy agency Masen. Several executives of the French group in charge of the file recently left the firm.

Masen's entire executive commitee in trouble following Bakkoury 

Breaking news published on 07/04/21, 5 p.m. - The travel ban placed on Morocco's sustainable energy agency boss Mustapha Bakkoury has now been extended to all four members of Masen's executive committee.

Masen's new solar power projects fail to attract developers 

Private sector electricity producers reacted with a mixture of perplexity and suspicion to the call from renewable energy agency Masen