The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank is investing $15 million (£9.45m) in the project which aims to increase renewable energy supply in the country.

The creators of Solar Paper are looking to buck this trend with a portable solar charger that generates up to 10 W of power, yet is lighter than an iPhone 6 Plus and only slightly wider and longer.

On a highway near Den Bosch, The Netherlands, a new form of solar technology is being tested on what is usually a mundane piece of infrastructure: a noise barrier.

By remaining airborne for nearly 4 consecutive days and nights, and with the aircraft producing its own power with solar energy, Solar Impulse 2 has proven that Piccard's vision of reaching unlimited endurance without fuel was not a crazy dream.

In Germany and South Africa, researchers and industry are cooperating in a 'solar melting of aluminium in a directly radiated rotary kiln' (SOLAM ) project to develop a method by which aluminium foundries could use solar energy to melt the metal, states the German Aerospace Centre.

The owner of London business district Canary Wharf has announced plans to introduce solar-powered benches which will allow passers-by to charge their phone and digitally discover the local area.

Recently, Schneider Electric Vietnam visited and donated 330 sets of solar energized lamps with brand name Mobiya to households in Ta Phin village, Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province.

Swedish furniture giant IKEA, with its 350+ stores and 150,000 employees around the world, has been taking steps to be a better citizen of the Earth, including selling solar panels in some stores and making a big wind power investment near Chicago.

The installation of a solar system over water canals has been completed in India.

Powered by solar energy, Dokk1 is a modern structure designed by schmidt hammer lassen and built as part of the Urban Mediaspace project in Aarhus, Denmark.

Good design can make people healthier and nowhere is that more true than in hospital design.

Mitsubishi Electric has completed installing a 6.2MW solar power plant in northern Japan.

The first utility-scale solar power plant in East Africa is now open in Rwanda. Built in the shape of the African continent, the solar farm is expected to generate enough power to supply 15,000 homes and boost Rwanda’s electricity generation capacity by 6%.

A £2.5 million solar farm has officially been opened in Legacy, North Wales. It is said to be the first solar farm in the country owned and operated by a local authority.

ABB has won a solar order worth $20 million (£12.6m) in Dubai. It will extend the substation at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar park, which will integrate more solar energy into the grid.

Two “mega” floating solar power plants have been completed in Japan.

A fruit farm has cut its energy bills by £30,000 a year by installing a 200KW solar system.

The Department of Energy (DOE) approved on May 27, 2015, the service contract of the largest solar PV power plant in the Philippines.

The energy required to run the center will be drawn from the highly efficient local energy grid which is powered by renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydro power. Through a combination of various energy saving techniques, excess energy produced by the facility will serve to heat buildings in the district.

The first commercial-scale solar plant in Kazakhstan has received funding worth €80 million (£58m).