- Volta River Authority has commissioned the Kaleo solar PV plant in Ghana.
- The plant has a capacity of 13MWp.
The Volta River Authority has just commissioned a new solar photovoltaic power plant in the northwestern region of Ghana. The plant was financed with a loan from the German development agency Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
The solar plant was inaugurated at a ceremony attended by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The solar park is being built on a 20.4-hectare site in the Nadowli Kaleo district of northwestern Ghana. The Ghanaian head of state also visited this locality for the facility’s groundbreaking ceremony in February 2020.
The Volta River Authority (VRA), which initiated the project, plans to increase its capacity to 28 MWp. The electricity generated by the new solar plant is fed into the grid of the state-owned Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) from the 161 kV Wa substation 15 km away.