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With ALSF support, the Republic of Seychelles launches the tender for the development of a 4MW solar PV plant

Le Morne, Mauritius, 20 June 2018-  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, H.E 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 the Lagoon le Rocher, 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 island states as they turn towards more renewable energy.
 
About ALSF
 
The African Legal Support Facility is an international organization hosted by the African Development Bank Group. The Facility is dedicated to providing legal advice and technical assistance to African countries in their negotiation of complex commercial transactions, creditor litigation and other related sovereign transactions. The ALSF also develops and proposes innovative tools for capacity building and knowledge management.
 
Contact: Timothy Wasswa Kabugo, African Legal Support Facility, t.wasswa@afdb.org