Kuwait has cancelled its 1.5 GW Al-Dabdaba solar plant, which would have been 7% of the country’s generation capacity. However, the project may see second life, being transferred from the financially challenged state-owned oil company Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), to the Ministry of Electricity and Water. The Ministry has the technical ability to foster such a project, but cannot fit its cost into its annual budget. Instead it will seek to implement it through the Partnership Projects Authority, for which it needs approval from the Council of Ministers. The relaunch of the already much-delayed project may require at least a year. On the plus side, the several years of delays have seen technological improvements to photovoltaic panels, which will…