No matter which side of the energy industry coin you are on, it is always nice to see large-scale energy projects being developed for communities that have scant access to electricity. And electricity access hardly gets more limited than in the developing African nation of Burundi, where only 4% of the population has residential access to electricity.
This is one of the reasons that solar and social development enterprise Gigawatt Global chose Burundi for this project, back in April 2015. Finally, after securing all of the financing for the project, the ground-breaking has taken place for the 7.5 MW solar plant 100 km from the capital city of Bujumbura.
The full cost of the project is believed to be US$ 14 million, making it the largest private international investment in the power sector in Burundi in nearly 30 ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...