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Botswana’s sunshine finds an investor in KP EnergyB2

Bright skies: KP Energy has big plans for the country’s abundant solar energy PIC: INDIAMART.COM
Bright skies: KP Energy has big plans for the country’s abundant solar energy PIC: INDIAMART.COM

Botswana’s energy story has, for decades, been written in coal. That chapter is beginning to turn, and one of the companies now helping to write the next one is KP Energy, part of India’s KP Group, which is setting up in Botswana under a landmark renewable energy partnership with the Government of the Republic of Botswana.

The group’s local entry is a BITC-accredited and facilitated project, and it comes with scale to match the ambition: a memorandum of understanding worth an estimated $4 billion, aimed at growing Botswana’s renewable energy capacity to nearly 5 gigawatts, a more than eight-hundred-fold increase on the roughly 6 megawatts of installed renewable capacity the country carried as recently as 2021.

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Editor's Comment
Gov't must guard against cadre deployment

As the Botswana National Front (BNF) discusses a policy to place suitably qualified members in strategic positions, the guiding consideration should remain whether an individual is the best person to serve the country. There is nothing wrong with qualified party members applying for public positions. Political affiliation should neither disqualify a capable candidate nor give them an advantage over others. Every Motswana deserves a fair...

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