- Amea Power has signs agreements with the Ivorian authorities for the financing and construction of a 50 MWp solar photovoltaic power plant in Bondoukou.
- The solar park will be connected to the national electricity grid of Ivory Coast.
Amea Power continues its expansion in West Africa by announcing the construction of a 50 MWp solar photovoltaic power plant in Bondoukou, in the Gontougo region, capital Abidjan. The concession agreement for the project was signed on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Development Week, which ends on 19 January 2023.
A power purchase agreement (PPA) was also signed by Amea Power at the same time, under which the Bondoukou solar power plant’s production will be sold to the Ivorian Electricity Company (CIE) for 25 years.
The Bondoukou solar power plant will have the capacity to generate 85 GWh of electricity annually, which is enough to power 350,000 people. The project will cost $60 million, and Amea Power will pay for it totally as part of a public-private partnership known as the BOOT (Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer) model (PPP).
Amea Power is the first IPP to do this for an Ivory Coast solar facility. But further initiatives, such as Touba and Laboa, are anticipated to follow. These locations have been selected for the construction of two power plants with a combined capacity of 60 MWp under the “Scaling Solar” programme of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group.