Original Story Published by: Emiliano Bellini for PV Magazine
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(Above) Only around 35% of Gambia's two million people have access to electricity.
The World Bank is helping Gambian utility NAWES find a consultant for the nation’s first large-scale scheme, to be developed under the national Electricity Restoration and Modernization Project. The solar plant may have a capacity of up to 20 MW, and could be linked with a storage system.
The World Bank has issued a request for expressions of interest to select consultancy providers for a PV project Gambia’s National Water and Electricity Company Limited utility is planning to develop in the Greater Banjul area, in the western part of the country.
Selected consultants will have to start providing services this fall and continue for approximately 36 months, the document says. Interested companies have until October 4 to submit offers. The contract includes the management and supervision of the solar plant, a 132 kV transmission line and substations, and a SCADA/EMS system.
According to a separate World Bank document, the solar project is expected to have a capacity of 10-20 MW, and to potentially include a battery electricity storage system to adapt output to demand and minimize grid absorption concerns. The project may be configured as a single plant in the Brikama area or as 3-5 smaller plants in the Greater Banjul area, with the same total capacity.
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