Kpalassi Solar Power Station (also Awandjélo Solar Power Station) is a solar power plant, under development in

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. The power station is being developed by the government of Togo, through the ''Agence Togolaise d’Electrification Rurale et des Energies Renouvelables'' (AT2ER) (Togolese Agency for Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy), with loans from the

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and from the

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, under the ''“Scaling Solar”'' program.

Location

The power station would be located in ''Kpalassi Village'', near the town of Awandjélo, in the

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of the

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, in the north of Togo. Awandjélo is located approximately south of

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, the provincial capital. This is about north of

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, the national capital and larges city of Togo.

Overview

The

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(IFC), the "private window" of the World Bank Group, has a program called "Scaling Solar", which encourages and provides financing to

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n countries to diversify energy sources by setting up solar generation stations, either by themselves or in

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s (PPPs) with independent power producers (IPPs). Togo signed up for the Scaling Solar mechanism in 2019. This is one of the first three solar farms under that arrangement. The design calls for a capacity of 42 megawatts.

Developers

The IPP for this power station in still in the tender stage, as of June 2022.

Financing

As of July 2022, the West African Development Bank has committed to lend €38 million towards the construction of this power station.

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