Original Story Published by: Salifa Karapetyan for Seychelles News Agency
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Seychelles is expected to save over $1 million annually once the construction of a solar farm on Romainville Island, off the main island of Mahe, is completed later this year, said a top official.
The Public Utilities Company (PUC) – responsible for the implementation of the project - will install a five-megawatt solar photovoltaic system that will “produce around 7 million kilowatt hours of energy per year,” said Laurent Sam, the energy engineer at the company.
“This is equal to the consumption of an average of 2,000 households, should they be using 300 kilowatts of energy each month,” said Sam.
Sam added that “this will allow Seychelles to save 1.6 million litres of fuel that won’t be needed to use in PUC’s power station. If we are to calculate, based on the price of oil today, that will be a savings of around $1.02 million per year.”
“The solar farm will produce the equivalent of about 1.8 percent of our annual energy demand,” said Sam.
Seychelles – a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean - relies heavily on imported fossil fuel for power generation and transportation. Currently, only 2.5 percent of the island nation's electrical energy is from renewable sources.
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