Reaching for the sky: Major solar projects finally kick off :: Mmegi Online

Nearly ten years after the first plans for a 200MW concentrated solar plant were completed, bidding was opened for the project only recently. Procurement of another 235MW of solar countrywide is advancing, suggesting that after many delays, the country is finally reaching for the power of the sun. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

Local clean energy firm, Sustainable Energy Botswana, calls it “letting the sun do the work,” a reference to the potential solar power has in transforming the country’s electricity mix from its current finite fossil fuel base, to a more renewable future.

For more than ten years, government has been making plans and venturing at limited scale into cleaner energy, particularly solar, but to date, the 600MW or so of peak national demand is still met largely by local and imported coal-fired power.

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