Ghana could house the continent’s largest solar farm by October 2015 standing on a 183-acre site with construction set to start in Q4 2013. In December, British firm Blue Energy announced that it would finance the project, but was waiting for government approval.
The Nzema project, estimated to cost around $400 million, would produce 155-MW of electricity via solar PV upon its completion. Blue Energy was granted the license coupled with a feed-in tariff that covers the plant’s 20-year operation by Ghana’s Energy Commission and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission.
The project will house 630,000 polycrystalline 245-watt PV modules to generate an estimated annual output of 240 GWh. The plant will also help supply power to members of the West African Power Pool, connecting to a 161-kV transmission line that connects Ghana to Cote d’Ivoire, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
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