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Nigeria is set to be the first African country to produce solar panels as PSC Solar Industries has begin construction of a solar panel producing plant at Warewa, along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Vanguard reports.
Speaking at the official groundbreaking ceremony at the project site, a 100-acre property, the Site Engineer who is also the Senior Project Engineer, PSC Solar UK Ltd, Mr. Ntogo Bakor Alex Alee said the idea behind the project is the company’s desire to further reduce the cost of distributed solar electricity power by this local manufacturing initiative thereby making alternative electricity affordable in Nigeria and the West Africa subcontinent.
According to him, over “N3 billion worth of solar panel PV manufacturing equipment procured from Rimas BV in the Netherlands, are on ground in Nigeria including sun simulators, stringers, larmators, automatic framers etc.”
“Twenty local engineers are already cleared and registered for advanced Solar, Electronics & Electrical Engineering training at the prestigious German Academy for Renewable Energy & Environmental Technology in Berlin, Germany for January to February 2015. The company is committed to training an additional 20 engineers yearly for the next five years at the German Academy,” said Alee.
“Solar panels to be produced in Nigeria include 12V/80Watts, 12V/160Watts, 24V/200Watts, 24V/250Watts, and all super efficiency mono crystalline solar PV panels with efficiencies in excess of over 35 per cent, way above industry average efficiency of 15 per cent,” stated Engr. Alee, adding that “Africa now has a reliable manufacturer of superior quality Inverters, Solar PV Panels, Solar Charge Controllers- PWM, Hybrid & MPPT Versions from 12V – 440V.”
#Nigeria #Solarpanel #Africa
Speaking at the official groundbreaking ceremony at the project site, a 100-acre property, the Site Engineer who is also the Senior Project Engineer, PSC Solar UK Ltd, Mr. Ntogo Bakor Alex Alee said the idea behind the project is the company’s desire to further reduce the cost of distributed solar electricity power by this local manufacturing initiative thereby making alternative electricity affordable in Nigeria and the West Africa subcontinent.
According to him, over “N3 billion worth of solar panel PV manufacturing equipment procured from Rimas BV in the Netherlands, are on ground in Nigeria including sun simulators, stringers, larmators, automatic framers etc.”
“Twenty local engineers are already cleared and registered for advanced Solar, Electronics & Electrical Engineering training at the prestigious German Academy for Renewable Energy & Environmental Technology in Berlin, Germany for January to February 2015. The company is committed to training an additional 20 engineers yearly for the next five years at the German Academy,” said Alee.
“Solar panels to be produced in Nigeria include 12V/80Watts, 12V/160Watts, 24V/200Watts, 24V/250Watts, and all super efficiency mono crystalline solar PV panels with efficiencies in excess of over 35 per cent, way above industry average efficiency of 15 per cent,” stated Engr. Alee, adding that “Africa now has a reliable manufacturer of superior quality Inverters, Solar PV Panels, Solar Charge Controllers- PWM, Hybrid & MPPT Versions from 12V – 440V.”
#Nigeria #Solarpanel #Africa
