The Mohamed Bin Zayed Solar PV Complex is expected to power around 158,000 homes and businesses in the country. DUBAI: An Abu Dhabi-funded solar plant in Togo, West Africa is now fully operational, state news agency WAM reported. The Mohamed Bin Zayed Solar PV Complex, a 50-MW project financed by the Abu Dhabi Fund for […]
RP Global And OOLU Solar Partner to Launch Westa.Solar, a New Commercial & Industrial Solar Venture in West Africa
Westa.Solar has delivered its first 500kWp solar PPA project to Petrichor Industries in Nigeria. RP Global, a leading renewable energy developer and investor, and OOLU, leader in energy access solutions in West Africa, announce the launch of Westa.Solar, a Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Solar Venture in West Africa, and the deployment of its first solar […]
Solar Power Helping Eradicate High Youth Unemployment in West Africa
GREEN Solar Academy and Valentin Software have joined forces with Takoradi Technical University in Ghana and KYA-Energy Institute in Togo, with financial backing from Germany’s develoPPP.de fund, to implement expert training and job placement opportunities for future PV engineers. BTech graduates and final-year students will be offered solid and practical professional PV solar training at […]
Developing the stand-alone solar product market in the Sahel
The World Bank will add $22,5million in additional financing to the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Project to support the development of the stand-alone solar product market in West and Central Africa, with a dedicated effort to include countries from the Sahel region. The additional financing to the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) is in the […]
Daystar Power raised $38 Million to Expand in West Africa
Daystar Power, a Nigerian solar energy provider, has raised $38 million with the support of Investment Fund for Developing Countries and Morgan Stanley Investment Management to expand solar access across West Africa. Lagos-based Daystar plans to replace “unreliable grid or too expensive, polluting diesel generators,” with clean reliable power, Jasper Graf von Hardenberg, the company’s […]
Easy Solar raises USD 5m for West Africa expansion
Easy Solar raises USD 5m for West Africa expansion..Read More.. Source : renewablesnow
GHANA: 50 MWp solar park combined with Pwalugu hydroelectric power plant
The Chinese company Sinohydro has begun construction of the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam in northern Ghana. It will be backed by a 50 MWp photovoltaic solar power plant. The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has recently made a visit to Talensi. He was in this northern district of the country for […]
BURKINA FASO: Africa Ren will develop 30 MW of solar energy in the west
Africa Ren, a French company dedicated to renewable energy production in Africa, has recently signed agreements with the municipality of Bobo-Dioulasso 6 in western Burkina Faso to build a 30 megawatt (MW) solar power plant. The project is illustrated as the launch of a vast solar project in Burkina Faso. The West African country plans […]
Senegal imports tribunes for first wind farm project, aims to become leader in renewables
Senegal started importing turbines for its first large-scale wind farm on Thursday, the biggest such project in West Africa that will supply nearly a sixth of the country’s power. Privately-owned British renewable power company Lekela expects the wind farm, located in Taiba Ndiaye, about 100 km from the capital Dakar, to reach 158.7 megawatts (MW) […]