Solar Energy

Oman boosts solar supply chain with Italian-built automated production line

The project comes as Oman’s solar sector grows, supported by strong solar resources and rising electricity demand.

DECEMBER 17, 2025|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF

Gigawatt Global's 7.5 MW Solar Field in Burundi, completed in May 2021, providing over 10% of the country's electricity.

Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle, next to an area destroyed by Myanmar's airstrike in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024.

War-torn Myanmar embraces solar to tackle power crisis

Myanmar's junta said earlier this year generation capacity had plunged by nearly half from pre-2021 levels.

NOVEMBER 14, 2025|ByREUTERS

Farmers stand by solar panels used to power the pumping of water from a well on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen June 6, 2022. Picture taken June 6, 2022.

Solar power offers a ray of hope in Middle East’s least electrified country

Yemen has been grappling with almost 30 years of electricity crisis due to fuel shortages and a war that caused severe damage to the national power infrastructure.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2025|ByREUTERS

The strangest attraction you’ll encounter in the middle of the desert

It’s pink, solar-powered, waiting for you in the heart of a dry desert, and it’s packed with cold drinks – completely free. If that sounds like a mirage, wait until you hear who put it there.

JULY 6, 2025|ByWALLA!

NASA might be able to use AI to predict dangerous solar storms

A solar storm occurs when material from solar wind reaches Earth's magnetic field - these are also called geomagnetic storms.

MAY 15, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

A coronal mass ejection from the Sun imaged on August 31, 2012

Doral announces the raising of over NIS 1b. with Mizrahi Bank and other institutions

The financial agreement includes the raising of senior debt in the amount of approximately NIS 575 million including a set amount for equity and guarantees.

MAY 12, 2023ByWALLA! FINANCE

Burundi inaugurates country’s first utility-scale solar power field

Thanks to a Jerusalem-based company, Burundi now has the world’s only capital city powered 100% by solar energy during the daytime.

MAY 10, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

Historic ribbon cutting by Burundi President Évariste Ndayishimiye for the Burundi 7.5MW solar field, near the village of Mubuga, Burundi, May 9, 2023. Gigawatt Global CEO Yosef Abramowitz, to his left, inaugurates his 18th solar field in 17 years.

Israeli solar pioneer, Burundi to double nation’s solar field’s capacity

President Évariste Ndashimiye will visit the Gigawatt Global plant, which started operating in May 2021 and now provides more than 10% of Burundi's electricity capacity.

MAY 7, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN