Neoen Commissions 41 MWp Solar Power Plant in Mozambique

• French-based independent power producer (IPP), Neoen, has officially commissioned the 41 MWp Metoro solar power plant in Mozambique. Inaugurated in October 2020 by Mozambican Head Of State, H.E. Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, the project will certainly come online in the following few weeks, providing much-needed power to the national grid.

Found in the north-eastern district of Cabo Delgado, the solar power plant consists of 121,500 photovoltaic panels covering a 138-hectare site and also was constructed by Portuguese energy as well as engineering business, Efacec Power Solutions.

With a power acquisition agreement with Mozambique's state-owned firm, Electricidade de Mocambique, the solar plant perseverance an approximated 175,000 Mozambican homes, feeding into the national grid over a 20-year duration while decreasing 49,000 tons of carbon emissions yearly. A EUR40-million loan was safeguarded by Neoen via Proparco-- the private sector funding department of the French Development Agency-- for the construction of the project.

The solar energy plant is set to diversify the southerly African nation's energy mix while increasing domestic eco-friendly generation capacity.