Reaching for the sky: Major solar projects finally kick off

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.