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Ghana’s first PV power plant

Interview: Blue Energy announced the 155 MW Nzema photovoltaic power plant project last month. The UK based renewable energy developer has formed subsidiary Mere Power Nzema Ltd. to execute the project. Douglas Coleman is the project director of Mere Power Nzema and he took the time to speak about the project particulars.

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Jonathan Gifford

08 Jan 2013

Tell me about the first steps towards this project? The Ghanaian government passed a law at the end of 2011 with an aspiration to have 10% of their generation coming from renewables by 2020. In the anticipation of that law, we started development of that project in 2010, to put together all the project rights …

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