Solar Rwanda
This solar field at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda embraces a big range of causes: it helps the long-term sustainability of the Village, it is good for the environment, it generates local employment and education and it empowers the country with access to electricity - which in itself results in a myriad of benefits for the Rwandan population.
Located on rolling green hills, east of Kigali, this $23 million project is the first utility-scale, grid-connected, commercial solar field in East Africa. The field is 8.5 MW, and it increased Rwanda’s generation capacity by 6%.
USAID / Power Africa photo by Sameer Halai
"Every three weeks we [the United States] brings online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008." President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2015
Solar Rwanda
This solar field at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda embraces a big range of causes: it helps the long-term sustainability of the Village, it is good for the environment, it generates local employment and education and it empowers the country with access to electricity - which in itself results in a myriad of benefits for the Rwandan population.
Located on rolling green hills, east of Kigali, this $23 million project is the first utility-scale, grid-connected, commercial solar field in East Africa. The field is 8.5 MW, and it increased Rwanda’s generation capacity by 6%.
USAID / Power Africa photo by Sameer Halai
"Every three weeks we [the United States] brings online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008." President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2015