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
