The Republic of Ghana will, by the end of March, 2021 connect 50MW solar farm executed by the country’s second largest state power generation company, Bui Power Authority, to the national electricity grid.
This will eventually boost electricity supply in the West African nation.
The 50MW solar farm, which is the first phase of 250MW solar project, is the second largest solar farm in West Africa after 50MW Akita solar farm in the Republic of Mali.
The first phase was commissioned November last year by Ghana’s former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo.
It will be the first solar utility scale to be connected to the national grid. Although there are three solar farms, generating power for the country none of them is on the national grid.
Dr. George Tettey, who is the deputy chief executive of BPA, told some selected journalists last week at a media engagement that engineers of BPA are currently conducting series of tests on the solar farm to ensure its integrity before it would be connected to the grid.
Source: www.energynewsafrica.com