Niger Inaugurates the 50MW Gorou Banda Solar
The solar farm will be capable of producing 53 GWh of electricity per year, enough to supply 70,000 homes, or 500,000 people in
Equipped with 55,776 solar panels installed on a 27-hectare site located just 12 km from the capital Niamey, the plant will be operational from 25 August 2023, the planned date for connection to Niger's national electricity grid. “This power station is designed to reduce load shedding in the Niamey region.
The infrastructure, located around ten kilometres from the capital Niamey, was built under the aegis of Nigerien Electricity Company (NIGELEC) with a view to improving the city's electricity supply. Niamey, the capital of Niger (population 1.5 million), has just seen an improvement in its electricity supply.
In an announcement made on national television on Sunday 26 November 2023, Niger's Minister of Energy, Mahaman Moustapha Barké, said that the commissioning of the Gourou Banda solar power plant would reduce the load shedding that the country had been experiencing for more than three months.
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