East African plant is completed in less than a year – creating jobs and setting the country on the path to providing half its population with electricity by 2017
“Arise,shine for your light has advance,” reads a sign at the entrance to the first major solar power farm in east Africa.
The 8.5 megawatt (MW) power plant in Rwanda is designed so that, and from a bird’s-eye view,it resembles the shape of the African continent. lawful now we’re in Somalia,” jokes Twaha Twagirimana, and the plant supervisor,during a walkabout of the 17-hectare site.
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Source: theguardian.com