Each of the ground-mounted solar plants will have 100MW capacity and are planned to be built at three different sites at the Mando area of Kaduna, Birnin-Kebbi in Kebbi and Sokoto in the North-West of Nigeria.
Phanes CEO Martin Haupts said: “Nigeria’s policymakers have worked proactively to address the nation’s immediate and long-term electrification challenges through the introduction of attractive clean energy policies, and we are beginning to see the fruits of those policies.”
The projects are expected to contribute to Nigeria’s aim to generate 2000MW of power from renewable sources by the end of the decade.
The Phanes’s Sokoto facility will be one of the 14 renewable projects to benefit from the government’s power purchase agreements (PPA) signed recently with utility-scale solar developers.
The first 50MW of the Sokoto project is planned to be grid-connected in the first quarter of 2018 while the entire project is planned to be commissioned by the end of 2018.
Additionally, Hasken-Rana, a joint venture between Phanes Group and its Nigerian partners, will execute and complete the Kebbi and Kaduna PV projects by the end of 2019.
Phanes Group COO Andrea Haupts said: “We are wholly committed to realizing Africa’s solar potential which also means identifying ways of utilizing our off-grid and micro-grid expertise to light up remote communities too.
“In parallel with our utility scale grid-connected work we will pursue and deploy solar to Nigeria’s rural communities where citizens are being held back by a lack of electrification – helping to transform the lives of millions of Nigerians.”
Nigeria is also considering the development non-grid solutions from renewable sources such as solar, wind and medium hydro to enable secure power supply.
Image: Nigeria intends to generate 2000MW of power from renewable sources by the end of the decade. Photo: courtesy of Naypong/FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
