The two facilities will be operated by the Cape Verdean national electricity company and will produce 4% of the total energy of this African archipelago. The two turnkey projects will involve an investment of around Euros 30 million and will use polycrystalline solar modules wholly produced in the Martifer Solar factory located in Oliveira de Frades (Portugal).
It is planned that the two PV plants will be completed within seven months and, once completed, will be the two largest arrays in Africa. The plant in Santiago Island, in Praia city, will have an installed capacity of 5 MW; the plant installed in Santiago Island will have an installed capacity of 2.5. Martifer Solar estimates that the two plants will avoid emissions of 13 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.
These projects situate Martifer Solar at the top of the league of international installers and Cape Verde at the top of Africa in terms of photovoltaic solar energy. "Martifer Solar is so proud to contribute to the Cape Verde energy diversification ", explained Henrique Rodrigues, Martifer Solar CEO. “All the energy produced will go directly to the consumer so that we can say that this is a pioneering project in the entire African continent”.
Martifer also signed an agreement with Cape Verde to provide specialised technical assistance to implement pilot micro-PV solar plants in its main towns, as well as conducting economic feasibility studies for the installation of a geothermal plant on the Island of Fogo.
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