Burkina Faso: Ground-breaking for solar plant


Issue 348 - 16 Jun 2017 | 1 minute read

x A ground-breaking ceremony took place on 26 May at the Iamgold Essakane mine for a new 15MWp solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant owned by Eren Renewable Energy and Africa Energy Management Platform. Made of nearly 130,000 PV panels, the 15MWp plant will be added to the existing 55MW heavy fuel oil plant to create what the developers describe as the largest hybrid PV-diesel plant in the world and one of the largest solar facilities in sub-Saharan Africa.

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