The capital of South Sudan is about to host a brand new 12 MWp grid-connected photo voltaic plant.
The nation had simply 1 MW of grid photo voltaic on the finish of 2021, in line with the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Company (IRENA), however that determine may very well be set to leap due to a undertaking below improvement in Juba by Ugandan firm Aptech Africa.
Aptech, which put in a photo voltaic rooftop-diesel system for the Higher Nile College of Malakal in South Sudan in November, has secured authorities approval to purchase the electrical energy from the brand new undertaking. The Juba undertaking might be financed by Ezra Building, which is a part of the South Sudanese Ezra Group, an Aptech Africa consultant instructed pv journal.
IRENA’s newest figures present that South Sudan’s 1 MW of grid photo voltaic has been in place because the finish of 2018.
