State-owned utility Sonabel is seeking proposals for a 20 MW solar power plant in Boulkiemdé province and a 10 MW facility in Sanmatenga area. Interested developers have time until February 28 to submit project proposals.

The state-owned electric utility of Burkina Faso, Sonabel, has issued a tender for construction of two PV power plants which will be partly financed by the World Bank under its Electricity Sector Support Project. The tender document, a 20 MW solar facility will be deployed near Koudougou, in Boulkiemdé province and a second, 10 MW project is planned for the city of Kaya, in the department of Sanmatenga province. For both projects, Sonabel is seeking developers for turnkey construction and for technical assistance to operation and maintenance. Interested companies have time until February 28 to submit project proposals. The projects appear not be part of the Burkina Faso government’s plan to connect around 155 MW of PV capacity to Sonabel’s network, in a program announced by the Ministry of Energy in late November.