Abu Dhabi (UNA-OIC) – The Mohamed Bin Zayed Solar PV Complex, one of the largest solar PV plants in West Africa financed by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and selected under the ADFD-IRENA (The International Renewable Energy Agency) Project Facility, is now fully operational.
The 50-megawatt (MW) project in Blitta, Togo, will supply reliable, clean electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the country to receive a sustainable supply of clean energy.
The new Blitta solar PV plant was inaugurated on Tuesday at a celebration marking the official opening of the facility located on a 92-hectare site in the Centrale region of Togo.
The new plant can produce 50 MW of clean energy and will power more than 158,000 homes and small businesses, significantly reducing dependence on firewood and charcoal for energy consumption.
It will help advance the Togolese national clean energy strategy and its aspiration to increase its renewable energy share by 50 percent by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030 while reducing CO2 emissions in the country by more than one million tons. The project created 700 jobs during construction, out of which 80 percent were Togolese.
ADFD, the economic development arm of the UAE Government, provided US$15million (AED55million) to finance the project in the form of a concessionary loan.
https://www.wam.ae/en/details/1395302946409
The 50-megawatt (MW) project in Blitta, Togo, will supply reliable, clean electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the country to receive a sustainable supply of clean energy.
The new Blitta solar PV plant was inaugurated on Tuesday at a celebration marking the official opening of the facility located on a 92-hectare site in the Centrale region of Togo.
The new plant can produce 50 MW of clean energy and will power more than 158,000 homes and small businesses, significantly reducing dependence on firewood and charcoal for energy consumption.
It will help advance the Togolese national clean energy strategy and its aspiration to increase its renewable energy share by 50 percent by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030 while reducing CO2 emissions in the country by more than one million tons. The project created 700 jobs during construction, out of which 80 percent were Togolese.
ADFD, the economic development arm of the UAE Government, provided US$15million (AED55million) to finance the project in the form of a concessionary loan.
https://www.wam.ae/en/details/1395302946409
