- The energy company Masdar Company has signed an agreement with the Ivorian authorities.
- The agreement is to study the possibility of installing a solar photovoltaic plant with a capacity of between 50 and 70 MWp.
In Ivory Coast, Masdar is exploring the possibility of installing a solar power plant with a capacity of between 50 and 70 MWp. The Ivorian Minister of Mines, Oil, and Energy, Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Fawaz Al Muharrami, Masdar’s executive director for renewable energy, recently signed a contract to conduct research for the project.
Masdar claims that the development of this solar power facility would help the Côte d’Ivoire government achieve its energy and environment goals.
According to official statistics, Côte d’Ivoire now has 2,369 MW of installed capacity and aims to reach 4,000 MW by 2025. A goal of 5,000 MW with 42% renewable energy has been set for 2030. Nowadays, gas—a fossil fuel that is the topic of discussion since some see it as a transitional energy and others as being as polluting as fuel oil or coal—provides 70% of the electricity distributed in Ivory Coast.
With the help of this program, which was started by the UAE in 2022, 100 million people in Africa will have access to 20,000 MW of installed renewable energy by 2035. Masdar has already reached agreements for the development of solar power plants with authorities in many African nations at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023. In Angola, for example, the UAE company expects to generate an installed capacity of 2,000 MWp of solar photovoltaic energy over the next five years.