The Minister of Energy and Public Utilities of Mauritius, Georges Pierre Lesjongard, inaugurated the Arsenal solar farm developed by a Mauritian subsidiary of the French company GreenYellow.
The subsidiary, GreenYellow Indian Ocean Green, constructed this solar photovoltaic facility with an export capacity of 10 megawatts (MW). The project was completed in a record time of eight months and spans over some 12 hectares of land. The project is anticipated to produce some 22.5 GWh yearly.
Minister Lesjongard highlighted that the solar farm will be on the CEB network by the end of this month.
The Minister also commented that, since operating in the Indian Ocean around 15 years ago, GreenYellow has become an important partner for the CEB as evidenced by the Arsenal solar farm which is its second project on the island, after the one at Solitude with a capacity of 16 MW. He underlined that these projects are an encouraging step in Government’s goal of reaching 60% of renewable energy in the country’s energy mix by 2030.