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The African Growth Financial institution has opened a young inviting consulting companies to specific curiosity in offering consultancy providers for a floating photo voltaic undertaking on the Kariba Dam, a hydroelectric energy plant in Zambia. The dam is positioned on the Lake Kariba reservoir on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border.
The chosen advisor will likely be tasked with feasibility research for the Kariba web site, together with the monetary and technical viability of the undertaking, technical specs for grid integration and the event of financing and enterprise fashions to implement the floating photo voltaic array on Lake Kariba.
The Kariba Dam is maintained by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), a bilateral group owned by Zambia and Zimbabwe. In response to the tender paperwork, the advisor may also assess the socioeconomic points of the proposed floating photo voltaic PV undertaking “to information ZRA and different native stakeholders in its decision-making course of.”
Expressions of curiosity have to be submitted by put up no later than June 15.
The tender paperwork say that the floating photo voltaic undertaking will assist to develop the total hydropower potential of the Kariba Dam advanced, whereas rising photo voltaic capability and bettering the usage of the ensuing hydro/photo voltaic system.
In response to figures from the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Company (IRENA), Zambia’s complete photo voltaic deployment stood at 124 MW on the finish of 2023, whereas Zimbabwe had deployed 41 MW of photo voltaic by the tip of December.
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