Non-maximum PV power station completed by the end of next year

Non-maximum PV power station completed by the end of next year According to the British "Guardian" recently reported that Africa's largest solar photovoltaic power station will be located in Ghana. The project's British Renewable Energy company BlueEnergy said on December 4 that the planned total installed capacity of the power station will be 155 MW.

Ghana is the world’s leading cocoa exporter. The petroleum industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Renewable energy is expected to become a new economic growth point for this small African country. It is said that Africa’s largest solar photovoltaic power station to be built will not only create hundreds of jobs for local people, but also help Ghana to increase its power generation capacity by 6% and reduce carbon emissions.

BlueEnergy revealed that this 155-megawatt giant solar photovoltaic power station is located in western Ghana. It will begin construction in late 2013 and is expected to install 630,000 photovoltaic modules. It will be ready for operation in October 2015.

It is understood that the Nzema PV power station ranks fourth in the world, and will be the first large-scale new energy project in Ghana that has applied for on-grid tariff subsidies. The Ghanaian government introduced a feed-in tariff mechanism in 2011. Ghana plans to increase the utilization rate of renewable energy from the current 1% to 10% by 2020.

BlueEnergy CEO Chris Tyan said: "Ghana's determination to promote the development of renewable energy is very prominent in sub-Saharan Africa. The Nzema power station is the best example of the government's release of Africa's Solar Energy potential. This power station will not only increase economic growth in Ghana. And contribute to the power supply, it will also train local talents."

Nzema project manager Douglas Krollman explained that Ghana uses photovoltaic technology instead of the common trough generation technology in North Africa and the Middle East, because photovoltaic power can meet the requirements no matter what the sun, but the trough requires direct sunlight. Kohler pointed out that this means that even if the frequency of cloudy days is 100 times higher than that of Ghana, the Nzema power station can still generate electricity without interruption.

The analysis pointed out that the Nzema PV power station in Ghana will inject a booster to the development of solar energy in Africa. Prior to this, the EU had aggressively promoted Desertec's large-scale Solar Power projects in North Africa. However, with the continuous economic crisis of the European Union and the launch of electric giants Siemens and Bosch, the project faces a huge funding gap, or it will die.

It is reported that Ghana was the fastest-growing country in the sub-Saharan region last year. Its GDP growth rate reached 14.3% due to the increase in oil production. In March of this year, the UK’s Turlow Petroleum Company stated that in 2011, a new offshore oil field discovered in Ghana has a huge reserve.

The Guardian pointed out at the same time that compared to the UK’s per capita CO2 emissions of 8.5 tons, Ghana's per capita carbon emissions of 0.4 tons are clearly insignificant.

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