Karibib Solar Power Plant

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The project involves the construction of a solar plant at Karibib in the Erongo Region of Namibia. The solar plant will feed 5MW into the country's national grid. It will use 19,000 solar panels to generate this capacity. The plant is one of the 14 renewable energy projects commissioned under the interim Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff programme (Refit) initiated by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Electricity Control Board (ECB). MetDecci Energy Investment from South Africa and local partners have developed the country's second independent power producer. MetDecci is a conglomerate of Met Group in South Africa that supplies infrastructure for the energy and mining sectors, and Decci from the Czech Republic that develops, owns and manages solar power plants. Investors signed a 25 year contract with the Karibib Town Council whereby they will share part of their profit with the council when they sell power to NamPower. The plant has entailed an investment of NAD 120 million. Sourced from Factiva