Ghana will develop a 100 MW solar plant in Nyimbale-Sankana, a village in the Upper West. The infrastructure will, after it is completed, provide enough power for about 80,000 Ghanaian households, and will start production by 2018. Its construction should start this year.

The project will cost $150 million of which the US Trade and Development Agency has provided more than $700,000 in the form of the subsidy.

With an actual capacity of 2,450 MW, Ghana intends to increase this capacity to 5,000 MW, during the year, with 10% of this output will be dedicated to renewable energies.

Gwladys Johnson