- Firm plans to develop a 50MW solar plant in Yendi, Ghana.
Bui Power Authority (BPA) has announced plans to develop a 50MW solar plant in Yendi. Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the BPA, disclosed this in a speech at a two-day Energy Commission’s Senior High School Energy and Renewable Challenge.
According to him, the contract has been signed, and the project will commence soon. At the Bui enclave, the Authority has also started installing a 250MW peak solar plant to hybridise the 404MW hydropower plant, to enhance power generating in the country.
According to Dzamesi, “we are vigorously pursuing the acquisition of about eight-suitable solar sites spread throughout the country and the development of those sites. Our goal is to support socio-economic development by utilising natural resources for energy generation in a safe, reliable, and cost-effective manner”.
Bui Power Authority operates the second largest hydropower plant in the country with a capacity of 404MW, situated at the Bui gorge on the Black Volta River.