Burkina Faso welcomes bids for building and construction of four PV solar power plants

• The federal government of Burkina Faso through the national power utility Sonabel, officially Societe Nationale d'electricite du Burkina Faso, has actually released a Notice of Invitation to Tender (AOO) requiring bids for the engineering, purchase, and also building and construction of four photovoltaic or pv solar power plants with a total capacity of 9 MWp in three different areas in the West African country.

2 of the facilities, with an incorporated capability of 6 MW, will certainly be developed in Dori, a community in the northeastern region of Burkina Faso while a 2-MW and also a 1-MW array will certainly be built in the towns of Diapaga and Gaoua, specifically in the southern area of the country.

Celebrations interested in the competition which is being accepted the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have up until the 5th of October this year to submit their proposals.

Improvement of the electrical power distribution network

The overall purpose of the new solar power project is to boost Burkina Faso's electrical energy circulation network and also reduce the nation's reliance on imported nonrenewable fuel sources through the increment of renewable energy manufacturing.

This new project complies with several various other renewable resource production projects in Burkina Faso. For instance, the solar power plant which is being constructed by Urbasolar in Pâ, a town in the Pâ Department of Balé Province in the south-western region of the West African nation.

The project damaged premises in February this year. Upon conclusion, the installment will be the second-largest solar power plant in Burkina Faso, with a capacity of 33 MWp. It will certainly assist brighten about 150,000 homes in the nation.

Yeleen Rural Electrification Project

Under its 2025 wider solar program, Yeleen, Burkina Faso intends to build solar parks that will be linked to the national grid, improve its electrical energy circulation network and also set up mini-grids and individual PV systems in backwoods. The AfDB has spent USD 58.1 m towards the application of the program.