7.5 MW field result of multinational effort already provides more than 10% of nation’s electric generation capacity; more to be developed Gitega/Mubuga, Burundi – 9 May 2023: President Ndayishimiye of Burundi today visited Gigawatt Global’s solar power plant in Mubuga, Burundi, near the capital Gitega, the nation’s first utility-scale solar field. The high-profile celebratory event[…]
7.5 MW utility-scale power plant increases East African country’s generation capacity by more than 10% on the eve of COP26 Gitega, Burundi – 25 October 2021: A multinational effort to bring solar power to Burundi has been realized with the commercial operation of the country’s first-ever solar field. The pioneering 7.5 MW solar PV plant[…]
From feasibility study to 25-year PPA in Burundi An international jury of experts selected Gigawatt Global as the 2020 EEP Africa Project of the Year for its 7.5 MW grid-connected solar PV plant in the Gitega province of Burundi. Gigawatt Global has secured a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Government of Burundi[…]
Gigawatt Global’s 7.5MW solar plant in Burundi to become first grid-connected project supported by REPP to begin full construction UK government-funded REPP set to continue support for country’s first private-sector grid-connected solar project with construction bridge loan London, 23 January 2020: Gigawatt Global’s 7.5MW solar plant in Burundi is to become the first grid-connected project[…]
By David Smith, Rwamagana, Rwanda: The Guardian East African plant is completed in less than a year – creating jobs and setting the country on the path to providing half its population with electricity by 2017 “Arise, shine for your light has come,” reads a sign at the entrance to the first major solar power[…]
Rwanda is set to become the first country in east Africa with a utility-scale solar plant after a $24m deal was signed to build the scheme outside Kigali, the capital. The 8.5 megawatt solar photovoltaic project is the brainchild of American-Israeli green entrepreneur Yosef Abramowitz, a pioneer of Israel’s solar industry. It is expected to[…]
A Dutch company said Monday it has begun construction of a solar field in Rwanda in what it said would be the first such large-scale project in eastern Africa. Gigawatt Global Coopereratief said it had closed the $23.7 million financing for the project and that construction began last week. Yosef Abramowitz, president of Gigawatt Global and[…]
Download PDF: 20140217_Gigawatt Global Rwanda release – Feb-17-2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17 February 2014 Construction Begins on East Africa’s First Utility-Scale Solar Field Breakthrough project “a game-changer for humanity and the environment” Dutch solar developer Gigawatt Global Coöperatief successfully closed on $23.7 million in financing on an 8.5 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant from an[…]
Rwanda has started the construction of a new 8.5 MW solar PV plant, the first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa. The plant will be built on land belonging to Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The PV plant will become East Africa’s first utility-scale solar installation and, once complete, will generate 8% of Rwanda’s electricity. The[…]
Scatec Solar, the global solar energy provider, have in partnership with Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries and Dutch developer Gigawatt Global Coöperatief, successfully closed on $23.7 million in financing on an 8.5 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) solar park in Rwanda. The project, East Africa’s first utility-scale solar plant, will increase the country’s power generation capacity by[…]