Can photo voltaic vitality assist Mali overcome the electrical energy disaster? No doubt we are going to discover out within the coming months. Mali’s transitional authorities has been working laborious in latest weeks to roll out this resolution throughout the nation. On Friday 24 May 2024, Transitional President Assimi Goïta traveled to Sanankoroba in Kati cercle to put the muse stone for a brand new photovoltaic solar energy plant.
With an anticipated capability of 200 MWp, it is going to be the biggest solar energy plant in sub-Saharan Africa. The park was constructed about thirty kilometers from the capital Bamako, below a partnership between the federal government and NovaWind, a subsidiary of the Russian vitality big Rosatom. The Moscow-based firm not too long ago signed a partnership with the federal government of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia) to develop 1,000 MW of renewable vitality.
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A day earlier than the beginning of labor on the Sanankoroba solar energy plant, Mali’s Head of State Assimi Goïta met with NovaWind’s Managing Director Grigory Nazarov to evaluation the progress of the challenge. At the tip of the assembly, the overall secretariat of the Malian authorities stated that the challenge represented “an essential step in direction of diversifying Mali’s vitality combine and decreasing its dependence on fossil fuels”.
“With this new technology infrastructure to be inbuilt Sanankoroba, Mali is embarking on the trail to a cleaner, extra sustainable vitality future,” stated President Assimi Goïta. Earlier this month, the federal government of Mali accredited the primary modification to the concession settlement for the development of a 50 MWp photo voltaic photovoltaic energy plant in Tiakadougou-Dialokoro, within the cercle of Kati. The solar energy plant, which is within the pipeline since 2020, shall be constructed below a public-private partnership (PPP) by the Emirati firm Amea Power.
Jean Marie Takouleu