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Solar Projects in Africa? Where are the large scale (over 5 MW) solar projects in Africa? Tony Tiyou September 2016 Renewables in Africa is a company of of www.renewablesinafrica.com Contents 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3 2. North Africa .................................................................................................................................... 4 3. West Africa ..................................................................................................................................... 5 4. East Africa ....................................................................................................................................... 6 5. Southern Africa ............................................................................................................................... 8 6. Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 8 7. Sources ............................................................................................................................................ 9 9. Annexe A: Large-scale Solar Farms in North Africa ..................................................................... 10 10. Appendix B: Large-scale Solar Farms in West Africa ............................................................... 11 11. Annexe C: Large-scale Solar Farms in East Africa .................................................................... 12 12. Appendix D: Large-scale Solar CSP Farms in South Africa ...................................................... 13 13. Appendix E: Large-scale Solar PV Farms in South Africa ......................................................... 14 14. Appendix F: Large-scale Solar Farms in Zambia & Zimbabwe ................................................ 16 2 Copyright 2016 © www.renewablesinafrica.com 1. Introduction Solar resources across Africa are fairly well distributed with approximately 85% of the continent's landscape receiving a global solar horizontal irradiation of about 2,000 kWh/m²/ year. This is more than twice the average received by the UK that is 900 kWh/m²/ year. With the theoretical solar energy reserves estimated at almost 40% of the entire globe, Africa stands as the sunniest continent in the world. PVGIS Database Figure 1 Distribution of Solar Resources across Africa The declining solar equipment costs coupled with policy initiatives taken in many countries have boosted the fate of the solar industry. Over the last decade, especially in the past 5 years, there have been an encouraging number of projects that have been completed or in the process of completion. With its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPP) launched in 2011, South Africa is the undisputed champion on the Continent with a 48% lion share of projects altogether. The South African Solar PV plants also account for 72.5% of the total active solar 3 Copyright 2016 © www.renewablesinafrica.com installations to date. The remaining projects are shared between North African countries (26%) and sub-Saharan countries (1.5%). ON OFF Total (MW) Weight (MW) Weight (MW) Weight South Africa 1361 72.5% 1527 37.0% 2888 48.1% Sub-Saharan Africa-South Africa 28.5 1.5% 2148 52.1% 2176.5 36.3% North Africa 488 26.0% 447 10.8% 935 15.6% Total (MW) 1877.5 100.0% 4122 100.0% 5999.5 100% Weight 31.3% 68.7% 100% An interesting fact is that if we focus solely on projects that are due for completion by 2019, we are looking in aggregate at approximately 2,150 MW to be built in sub-Saharan African countries with the exclusion of South Africa. This represents 52% or more than half of the total projects (2.6 GW worth of installations) in development or under construction. South African will add 1,527 MW or 37% of the total and countries from North Africa 447 MW or 10% of the total. The next few years are promising to be incredibly busy for the industry in the continent. Two technologies are deployed, concentrated solar power (or CSP) mainly in the Maghreb and South Africa, and photovoltaics or PV across the continent. Many programmes are acting as driving forces and contributing to unlock of the potential of Solar: Power Africa, the US signature programme of President Obama, Electric Africa, initiated by the UK government and the African–EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme (RECP). All these are aiming to tackle the lack of electricity access faced by more than 640 million of Africans. With many of its companies involved into the market, China is also seen as a key player and with Prime Minister Modi, India is actively developing ties with many African nations. The sections below give you a better understanding of the geographical distribution of the solar farms and in annexes you will find additional information about technical details, locations, investments and the various players involved. For comparison purposes, please do remember that a nuclear plant that produces roughly 1 GW of electricity could provide power for approximately 800,000 homes in Africa. So a 100 MW Solar plant could expect to service the equivalent of 80,000 homes, with the average household size in Africa being about 6 people. In some places, depending on the density and the needs of the population, the number of homes serviced could be much higher. 2. North Africa Taking advantage of their geographical locations, countries of Maghreb have sought to harness their abundant solar resources and connect North Africa with Western Europe through major projects like 4 Copyright 2016 © www.renewablesinafrica.com Desertec and TuNur. While the former fell apart with the advent of the Arab spring, the latter is still being developed. Algeria, Egypt and Morocco are heavily investing into solar and have all set ambitious targets to reach by the end of the decade or by 2030. Algeria holds the current largest capacity of operational solar farms, 288 MW; followed by Morocco, 180 MW (dominated by CSP technology). The Moroccan Kingdom is developing an impressive solar power complex at Ouarzazate, with the total cost estimated at more than $9 billion. The first phase, Noor 1, $841 million investment with $0.19/kWh PPA price, was completed in February 2016. Noor 2 and 3 are also planned and will add a staggering 350 MW of solar power. Figure 2 - CSP complex (World Bank image): Noor 1 (Left), Noor 2 & 3 (Right) to be completed in 2017 & 2018. Egypt is also forging ahead with solar and aiming to provide 20% of generated electricity from Renewables by 2020. To help achieve this objective, a Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme has been launched in late 2014. To this date, only 20 MW of Solar CSP are operational and a total of 97 MW of solar PV will be built. Solar Target Target ON OFF Countries (MW) year (MW) (MW) Additional Info Algeria 12,000 2030 288 0 1 CSP plant (20 MW) Egypt 2,000 2020 20 97 1 CSP plant (20 MW) Morocco 2,000 2020 180 350 510 MW CSP @ Ouarzazate More detailed information can be found in annexe A. 3. West Africa In West Africa, Ghana has clearly taken the lead with the government looking for a target of 5,000 MW of installed generation, including 10% from renewable sources. In April 2016, Ghana's first solar 5 Copyright 2016 © www.renewablesinafrica.com module manufacturing plant was opened in Kpone, with an annual production capacity of 30 MW. A week later, a Chinese company Beijing Xiaocheng powered a 20 MW plant near Accra, which is the country’s biggest operating PV facility to date. In addition to that, the country is currently building the biggest solar pant in Africa, the Nzema Project, 155 MW, with an investment of $400 million and a FiT price of $0.20/kWh. After completion the project will represent about 6% of Ghana generating capacity and providing power to 100,000 homes. Figure 3 - Nzema Solar Plant (image from pv-magazine.com) With a population of more than 170 million people and a generating capacity of about 5 GW, Nigeria is playing catch up and is taking aggressive steps to launch its solar programme. The country is aiming to reach 1,125 MW by 2020 and multiple projects are currently in discussion. Other projects in construction in the region could be found in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Sierra Leone who has recently launched a 6 MW solar park. Senegal recently signed up for the IFC “Scaling Solar” programme, the second country to do so after Zambia (Madagascar is the third country to join). Solar Target Target ON OFF Countries (MW) year (MW) (MW) Additional Info Burkina Faso Not known 0 53 Part of Nzema will be biggest solar PV in Ghana Renewables:10% 2020 20 255 Africa Nigeria 1,125 2020 0 675 Big market in development Senegal 200 2019 0 20 Joined IFC Scaling Solar Sierra- Leone Not known 6 Solar Revolution in development More detailed information can be found in annexe B. 4. East Africa In East Africa, Kenya has been one of the first countries in the continent to support Renewable Energy. They launched their feed-in tariff scheme since 2008, but did not address solar initially. It 6 Copyright 2016 © www.renewablesinafrica.com was included later in the 2010 revision. Although at the forefront of the industry, there is no utility scale solar farm in the country that is active as yet. The Garissa plant is being developed and should come online around mid-year in 2017. The only operational site in the region is in fact the Rwamagana plant, located in Rwanda. The 8.5 MW power plant is designed
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