AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A United States utility company is building the first solar power plant in electricity-starved Guinea-Bissau.
In May 2013, Prime Minister Rui Duarte Barros laid the first stone of Suntrough Energy’s $30 million photovoltaic station on the outskirts of the West African nation’s capital.
“This facility will help us to solve the energy issue and will also create 200 jobs,” Barros said at the ceremony. It was expected to take six months to complete, a Suntrough Energy official said.
Power cuts are frequent in the capital Bissau due to the inability of its only power plant to meet demand.
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