Written by Ben Willis | From PV Tech

Namibia in southern Africa is expected to see its first large-scale PV plant come online early next year following a ground-breaking ceremony last week. The 4.5MW project is being built in Omburu, to the north-west of the Namibian capital, Windhoek, by French company InnoSun.

Power from the project will be sold under a 25-year power purchase agreement to Namibian utility, NamPower. According to InnoSun, its output will be roughly 11,025MWh per year, enough to supply 1% of Namibia’s electricity consumption.

Speaking to PV Tech, Marc Piquer Coll, InnoSun’s project manager for network connections, said the Omburu project would be complete in March 2015. Meanwhile, he said the company had another PV project of a similar size ready to go in Namibia next year and a pipeline of between 30 and 50MW of other projects in the country.

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