Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Ethiopia starts making solar panels


The Ethiopian Government recently announced its goal to have 20% of its power capacity derived from solar energy within the next 5 years.  In accordance with that national goal, Spire Corporation,  SKY Energy International, Inc  (Florida based) and Metals and Engineering Corporation- METEC (Ethiopia based) have teamed up to build the first solar energy manufacturing plant in Ethiopia. The facility  will be a turnkey assembly line producing 20 megawatt photovoltaic modules in Addis Abba. 

You can read more about Spire, SKY, METEC and their project here

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