Mini-solar power plant unveiled in Mvomeka’a, in South-Cameroon

(Agence Ecofin) - 293 solar panels and 93 streetlamps, for a production capacity of 73 KW of electric energy per day. This summarises the mini-solar power plant, with a global cost of FCfa 454 million, which the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies has just offered to the town of Mvomeka’a (photo), hometown of the head of state of Cameroon located in the Southern region.

The infrastructure was commissioned on 27 August 2015 by the minister of Energy and Water Resources, Basile Atangana Kouna. “This project demonstrates the feasibility and huge potential of solar energy for the improvement of electricity supply in rural zones”, declared the Managing Director of Huawei Cameroon, Ni Zheng, whose company has already shown great interest in implementing the solar power electrification project in 166 towns of the country, a project under finalisation by the government.

In total, in the long term, there will be 1,000 Cameroonian towns benefitting from this large rural electrification program, reminded Minister Atangana Kouna on 27 August in Mvomeka’a. The country could then diversify its energy mix, in which solar power, wind power and biomass currently only represent barely 1% of the global production.