The 1MW project was awarded by the Jordanian government to local developer Mustakbal, which has a number of PV projects under development in the southern region around the city of Ma’an.

Phoenix, which won the order through its Singapore-based subsidiary, has tapped China’s Trina and Germany’s SMA to provide modules and inverters respectively.

Despite its painful reliance on Egyptian gas for electricity production, and the positive noises it has been making about renewables for years, most experts expect relatively modest PV installations in Jordan over the next handful of years – with most capacity gains to come from utility-scale systems.

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