Chad: MoU for 120MW solar scheme

AMEA Power chairman Hussain Nowais on 1 February signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a 120MW solar project in Chad. The plan is for a turnkey project to be delivered in October 2020. The agreement was signed with petroleum and energy minister Mahamat Hamid Koua, a former deputy secretary-general of the government and trade minister who was appointed the previous day. Koua replaced Aziza Mariam El-Bashir, former deputy director-general of Société des Hydrocarbures du Tchad, who was appointed on 21 January and sacked ten days later.