- IIIoufin solar power plant is set to increase its capacity from 25MWp to 50MWp.
Benin’s Minister of Energy, Dona Jean-Claude, has announced the Beninese government’s plans to increase the capacity of the IIIoulofin solar power plant in the southeast of the country. The solar plant will now have a total capacity of 50MWp.
The construction work is being carried out by Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, the energy branch of the French group Eiffage. According to its general manager for international activities, Ludovic Duplan, the work is already 60% complete. “The work is progressing according to schedule. Most of the equipment has been delivered. We are in the assembly and installation phase,” he explains.
The first phase of the photovoltaic plant under construction in the village of Illoulofin will produce 35 GWh of electricity per year, enough to cover the consumption of 180,000 people.
The clean energy produced will be injected into the Beninese Electricity Company (SBEE) network from the Pobè source station. The Beninese government is financing the solar power plant through loans from the European Union (EU) and the French Development Agency (AFD). The first phase of the Illoulofin solar plant will be delivered in April 2022.