June 22, 2018/AfDB
With the support and technical guidance of the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF), and in the context of the Africa Energy Forum held in Mauritius, Seychelles Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change. Wallace Cosgrow, announced the launch of the tender of the right to develop, finance, own and operate a 4MW floating grid-connected solar PV plant in le Rocher Lagoon, Mahé.
The Seychelles Solar PV Project will be the first in Africa, and one of the first salt-water floating solar PV plants in the world. More importantly, this clean and innovative project has a great potential to be replicated elsewhere; and become a promising and scalable energy solution to land scarcity in island states as they turn towards more renewable energy.