Building starts on 50 MW PV plant in Togo

• The 50 MW Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed photovoltaic power plant is located in the Blitta region. The plant is being developed by Amea Togo Solar - a subsidiary of Amea Power, a worldwide renewables developer based in the United Arab Emirates.

The federal government of Togo announced that building and construction has started on the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed solar power plant in the Blitta region, in the central part of the nation.

The 50 MW solar park is anticipated to produce virtually 90,255 GWh annually as well as to call for a financial investment of about 20 billion FCFA (around EUR30 million), part of which is being supplied by the Abu Dhabi Fund for the Development.

Established by the UAE-based business Amea Power, the center will market electricity to the Togo Electric Power Company (CEET) under a 25-year PPA.

The project becomes part of a 90 MW solar project pipeline that the government intends to develop with the support of the International Financial Corporation (IFC), participant of the World Bank team.

If carried out, these brand-new projects will be the initial utility-scale solar growths in the African country, which thus far has primarily been country electrification solar projects.

Togo intends to get to energy freedom by 2030, particularly by developing solar projects. The nation, which joined the Scaling Solar program in July 2019, released in early January a very first tender for the building of 2 photovoltaic power plants with a capability of as much as 80 MW.

Togo's 7.5 million people experience regular power lacks in a country in which only 28% of people have access to electricity.