Sudan looking to open their first solar storage parks

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 In an interesting announcement from Sudan’s Ministry of Energy, a yet-to-be-announced solar company from the UAE has agreed to construct several large scale solar plants across the African nation. 

Khairy Abdul Rahmanhas, who is Sudan’s minister of energy and mining, met with the general director of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, Mohamed Saif Al Suwaidi, last week to sign a memorandum of understanding for the construction of these solar power plants. 

In an exciting move, these new projects will become Sudan’s first solar parks and will offer a combined solar capacity of 500 MW in Sudan. The Sudanese government plan to purchase the generated electricity at a competitive price over the next 20 years from these solar parks which will be built by UAE-based companies. 

Sudan has, up to now, had one of the lowest levels of solar production in Africa, despite having one of the best levels for solar radiation of any nation in the world, so it was a prime location for this type of opportunity. T

Previous efforts by the Sudanese government to implement renewable energy initiatives have been very limited so far, so it’s exciting to see a project which could really take off in the nation. Recent data for the International Renewable Energy Agency suggest that Sudan only had 19 MW of installed solar power by the end of last year. 

So, the current plans to install 500 MW of solar and 300 MW of wind by early 2021 really would revolutionise the country’s renewable energy potential and we wish them every success in their attempts.

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