An Israeli renewable energy company, Energiya Global and the
USAID Power Africa Initiative have collaborated to boost the electricity power
supply in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with some $1billion
solar commitment, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This is coming as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed
Friday between the State of Israel and ECOWAS, Israel’s leading solar developer
to invest $1 billion over the next four years to advance green energy power
projects across the 15 member states of the West African economic community.
“In honor of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s two terms in
office, and Liberia’s friendship with the State of Israel, Energiya Global and
our international partners will finance and build a commercial-scale solar
field at the Roberts International Airport, which will supply 25 per cent of
the country’s generation capacity,” says Yosef I. Abramowitz, CEO. “We are prepared to finance and build the
first National Demonstration Solar Projects in all ECOWAS-affiliated countries
in order to promote political stability and social and economic development, as
well as to advance knowledge transfer.”
Energiya Global and its associated companies developed the
first commercial scale solar field in sub-Sahara Africa in Rwanda, which is supplying
6 per cent of the country’s power, and the group broke ground on a similar
power plant in Burundi, which will supply 15 per cent of the country’s power by
the end of the year. The solar group has
fields at various stages of development in ten African countries and expects to
announce its full program at the Israel-Africa Summit in Togo at the end of
October.
In an historic first, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu is scheduled today to address the 15 West African heads of state of
ECOWAS, as well as the head of the African Union. “Israel is coming back to
Africa,” the Prime Minister will announce, and will outline the technological
innovations in agriculture, water, green energy and more that can support economic
development in West Africa.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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