- Zergoun Green Energy inaugurates a solar panel manufacturing factory in Algeria.
- The new facility spans a 9,200-square-meter site.
- The solar panel manufacturing plant in Ouargla cost 1.7 billion Algerian dinars.
Zergoun Green Energy recently inaugurated a solar energy manufacturing factory in Algeria. Officials from Algeria’s Ministries of Industry and Mines, as well as Energy Transition and Renewable Energies, attended the ceremony. The plant is in Ouargla, a city in the Algerian Sahara’s north-eastern region, more than 780 kilometres from the capital Algiers.
The new facility, which spans a 9,200-square-meter site, is outfitted with equipment capable of generating 5 and 6 bus bar M3 mono PERC modules with 405-415 Wp and a capacity of 200 MW per year. Zergoun Green Energy predicts that the installation will produce 150 direct jobs, although its manufacturing is 95% automated. This is why the corporation has formed alliances with other businesses.
The solar panel manufacturing plant in Ouargla cost 1.7 billion Algerian dinars, or a little over 11 million euros, to build. The Spanish business Mondragon Assembly, which is already developing a comparable facility in Egypt, was tasked with constructing Zergoun’s solar panel manufacturing unit.
According to Benattou Ziane, Algeria’s Minister of Energy Transition and Renewable Energies, the new facility will aid in the completion of Algeria’s largest solar energy project. The “Solar 1,000 MW” project, which is presently open for bids, seeks to build a 1,000 MWp installed capacity by combining various solar photovoltaic power plants with capacities ranging from 50 to 300 MWp.
The solar panel manufacturing plant in Ouargla, which is expected to raise its capacity by 300 MW, is part of a series of projects approved by the Commissariat aux énergies renouvelables et à l’efficacité énergétique (CEREFE) to produce solar panels locally. In the Boukherana industrial zone, near Chelghoum El Aid, 400 kilometres from Algiers, a comparable project is expected to produce 100 MW of solar module production capacity. This unit is owned by Milltech, an Algerian firm that intends to join hands with Zergoun Green Energy, another Algerian company, to pool raw material purchases.