SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) will supply 21 SMA Medium Voltage Power Station to the biggest PV power plant in West Africa. In Paris, representatives from SMA and Akuo Energy have now signed contracts. The 50 MW KITA solar farm in Mali is scheduled to be connected to the utility grid in 2019. The project will be developed following a build-own-operate and transfer model.
The solar power generated will be procured by the Malian energy supplier Electricité du Mali, with which the PV power plant operator has concluded a 28-year power purchase agreement.
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November 29, 2018
Resolute Mining to get 40MW solar hybrid power plant for Syama Gold Mine
Resolute Mining has signed a Joint Development Agreement with Ignite Energy for the development of 40 MW independent solar hybrid power plant for Syama Gold Mine in Mali. Ignite Energy take care of t...
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October 17, 2018
50 MW solar project in Mali achieves financial close
Norton Rose Fulbright has announced that it has closed the financing facilities on a 50 MW solar PV plant in Sikasso, Mali for Akuo Energy. The Kita solar farm is the French company's first...
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June 13, 2018
MoU signed for US$1 billion renewable projects in West Africa
Multinational renewables developer Gigawatt Global Cooperatief has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to invest US$1 billio...
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January 31, 2018
Akuo Energy secures financing for Mali’s second solar park
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) and Akuo Energy have announced the signing of a financing package for a 50 MW solar power project in Mali. The Kita project is Mali’s sec...
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January 10, 2018
Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana Ministers of Energy to join TOTAL, CI-GNL, RLSF, APUA, ANARÉ and WAGPA at the Regional Energy Co-operation Summit in Côte d’Ivoire this January
With confirmed participation of H.E Honourable Malick Alhousseini, H.E Honourable Professor Alfa Oumar Dissa, Ghana’s Ministry of Energy, Autorité Nationale de Régulation du Secteu...
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