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    Botswana has held up exertions towards Large-scale Adoption of Renewable Energy

    Posted On 07 Jul 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 8

    By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Botswana’s energy regulator has approved a generation license for a 100MW solar project to the local firm – Shumba Energy, a firm executive told on July 05th, 2021 bringing in as the primary independent power producer to set up a large-scale solar plant in the country.

    From statistics given by the Department of Energy, is calculated at 681MW, anticipated to thrive to 1017MW by 2025. The escalation in the cost of imported electricity bonded with high power shortages in the 2000s has urged the administration of Botswana to reconsider its conclusion of highly depending on imports to assure the security of supply and nevertheless retain the least-cost theory.

    Botswana accomplishes not presently have large-scale solar power generation and its 600MW national energy need is fulfilled by state-owned coal-fired plants and imports, largely from South Africa and Mozambique. Locally-listed Shumba Energy plans to implement the project in two stages with the construction of the first level of 50MW
    plausible to commence in the following six months.

    “With all the permits now in place, we are now working on concluding the funding, with capital expenditure estimated at $80 million for the whole project,” Managing Director Mashale Phumaphi noted.

    Botswana has 212 billion tons of coal stocks and the fossil fuel is anticipated to proceed to lead power generation in the nation in the immediate possibility, pundits have asserted. Nonetheless, investors have frequently put forward skepticisms about the huge dependency of African nations on coal-based power plants that divulge millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

    The diamond-rich nation, whose frugality has leased by near to 8% from a growth rate of up to 4% before diamond-rich plans to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix to 18% by 2030. Botswana has some of the highest levels of direct normal (solar) irradiation (DNI) – a measure of the amount of sunlight – at over 3,000 kWh/m2 per
    annum, according to Solargis.com, a global agency on solar data.

    Phumaphi let out the solar project had not approved any power off-take approvals but will regulate as a merchant power producer feeding into the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP).

    State-owned Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is currently the sole electricity producer in Botswana.

     

     

    For New Africa Business News (NABN) Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    8 Comments

    1. Martin July 7, 2021 at 3:45 am Reply

      Botswana’s large scale adoption of renewable energy is very good. Thank you for the report. Windhoek NAMIBIA. Martin

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 7, 2021 at 3:55 am Reply

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    2. Samuel July 7, 2021 at 3:48 am Reply

      I love it. Africa is leading in renewable energy. Good for us and the continent. And the planet. Samuel in Lusaka Zambia

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent July 7, 2021 at 3:55 am Reply

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    3. Henry July 7, 2021 at 3:51 am Reply

      Thank you for this report. Renewable revolution is going great in our great Continent. Don’t you love it? I bet you do. Henry in Nairobi Kenya

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    4. Ben July 7, 2021 at 3:53 am Reply

      Thank you for the newsletters. You guys are doing beautiful job. Ben in Berlin, Germany

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