PV schemes bringing energy to people across Kenya and North Africa – and pupils and students in Palestine – as well as across the Middle East, were among the award winners at this year’s Middle East Solar Industry Association (MESIA) awards.

With the winners recognized at an awards night staged in Abu Dhabi’s Aloft hotel as part of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), Saudi

Arabia’s ACWA Power took the high-profile Regional Company of the Year award for financing and developing 2.75 GW of renewable energy projects across the region, including the 300 MW Sakaka PV project in Saudi and the 950 MW DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) IV concentrating solar power-PV hybrid project in Dubai.