Namibia: Arandis solar PPA signed

OLC Arandis Solar Energy signed a 25-year power purchase agreement on 19 September with the Erongo Regional Electricity Distributor. A tender for a 3MW solar photovoltaic plant at Arandis was awarded in February to Germany’s Cronimet Mining Power Solutions and its Namibian partner O&L Energy. Ground-breaking for the N$80m ($6m) solar plant will take place in November, with operations expected to start by April 2017. Cronimet was engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the 4.5MW Omburu solar plant, which started operation in 2015.