Solar tender in Mauritius

• The island country's Agricultural Marketing Board is looking for propositions for a ground-mounted PV plant. Programmers have a week to send quotes.

The Agricultural Marketing Board (AMB) of Mauritius has actually released a tender for building of a PV plant on its land.

The project will certainly be constructed in the Moka area in the main plateau of the island. It was not defined whether the project would certainly integrate power generation with farming as well as no certain generation ability was discussed in the tender files.

The AMB is a stated-owned entity managed by the country's Ministry of Agro Industry as well as Food Security.

Designers have up until following Thursday to send propositions.

The federal government of Mauritius is intending to raise making use of sustainable resources of power from the existing degree of around 22% to 35% by 2025.

The Indian Ocean island state has actually additionally been sustaining dispersed solar via internet metering and also discounts.

Mauritius had 83 MW of mounted solar generation ability at the end of the year, according to International Renewable Energy Agency numbers. Some 498 MW of the country's general 877 MW of generation centers are run by state-owned utility the Central Electricity Board.