- Gauff Engineering trains 247 Senegalese on Solar PV operations.
- The project aims to electrify 300 villages.
The Senegalese branch of the German consulting firm Gauff Engineering has made a significant accomplishment in conducting extensive training for the installation of solar photovoltaic systems. About 247 young Senegalese have completed five-day operations, maintenance, and remote supervision course.
These skilled trainees will lead in installing independent solar mini-grids in 300 rural settlements, providing electricity to 20,000 homes. Three thousand families from 44 villages have already been wired into the grid thanks to 150 mini-PV power plants spread across the southern Kolda region, the northern Louga and Saint-Louis regions, the centre Kaffrine, Kaolack, and Fatick regions, and the central Kaffrine.
The Senegalese Rural Electrification Agency (ASER) and Moroccan-Senegalese Company for Electricity are partners in the project, which is funded by the German development organization Kreditanstaltfür Wiederaufbau. Forty executives from these two companies received Gauff’s training to become qualified for their positions.