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Russia’s NovaWind starts building a 200 MW solar plant in southern Mali

The Malian Ministry of Energy has announced that the Russian company NovaWind had started the construction of Mali’s largest solar power plant. The 200 MW solar project will cover 314 hectares in Sanankoroba, in south-western Mali. The US$217m project is scheduled to take a year to complete.

Novawind, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned nuclear group Rosatom, partnered with the Malian Government in November 2023 to develop two solar projects totalling 240 MWp, namely the 100 MWp Bougouni solar park and the 140 MWp Sanankoroba solar park, in southern Mali. The agreement also included the construction of the 225 kV Sikasso-Bougouni-Sanankoroba-Bamako transmission line. All projects are scheduled to be completed before the end of December 2024.

In 2023, solar represented nearly 20% of Mali’s installed capacity with 229 MW. The country more than doubled its solar capacity during the course of 2022. Mali currently has 1.2 GW of solar projects under development.

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