The government of Tshopo province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recently inked a deal with Cat Projects Africa to develop a 40 MW solar power plant near the provincial capital Kisangani.
The photovoltaic solar power plant will be built on 65.5 ha of land. It will consist of 1,55,000 solar panels that will be connected to 72 solar inverte rs that will use 36 transformers to feed the electricity produced into the National Electricity Corporation (Snel) grid.
The acquisition of the construction equipment for the Kisangani solar photovoltaic plant will take another four months. The construction work will be completed in a period of nine months.
The completion of the project will be crucial for Tsopo Province, which depends on 12 MW hydroelectric power plant built at the falls on the Tsopo River for its electricity supply. The new park will be one of the largest solar power plants in DRC, which also relies more on hydroelectric power plants for its electricity production.