Elecnor supplies a 6.5 MWp photovoltaic or pv solar energy plant in Lawra

• The Spanish energy business Elecnor has just finished the construction of one of the two photovoltaic solar energy plants prepared in the Upper West area. The installment, situated in the community of Lawra, has a capability of 6.5 MWp. The park was commissioned by the President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The Spanish electrical contractor Elecnor, the service provider of a solar project underway in the Upper West area of Ghana, has simply provided its very first outcomes. On October 10th, 2020, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, appointed a photovoltaic solar power plant in the community of Lawra. The installment has an ability of 6.5 MWp, instead of 4 MWp as initially intended by the Ghanaian federal government. It is connected to the grid using a medium-voltage transmission line connected to a 34.5 kV substation in Lawra. Construction work with the Lawra solar power plant took eight months.

The solar park has a "totally geared up" control building. Electrical power from the plant will supply some 15,000 homes.

A $25 million solar project

Elecnor is currently building an additional solar power plant (13 MWp) in Kaleo, once more in the Upper West region. The business is working in partnership with the Volta River Authority (VRA), the public body produced by the Ghanaian government with the purpose of creating, releasing as well as sustainably utilizing the sources of the Volta River and other renewable resource sources discovered in the river container. Deal with this second power plant is expected to be finished by December 2020.

The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), the German development company, is funding the building of both solar energy terminals to the tune of 25 million bucks (nearly 145 million Ghanaian cedis). "Once completed, both projects would certainly generate enough power to power approximately 32,000 households as well as enhance the geographical distribution of electricity production in Ghana. Kaleo will likewise come to be the very first grid-connected solar power plant in the Upper West Region and also will certainly add to its advancement," claimed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the beginning of construction in February 2020.

The two solar setups will certainly also avoid the exhaust of 7,400 tonnes of CO2 per year, according to the Ghanaian state.