This funding, provided through the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), will power an 18-megawatt solar plant in western Burkina Faso. The Dédougou project, situated 250 kilometers west of Ouagadougou, forms part of the AfDB's Desert-to-Power initiative. This investment supports the broader Desert-to-Power initiative, which aims to transform the Sahel region into a major. . The Dedougou Solar Project is set to complete an 18-MW solar plant in Burkina Faso after securing €6 million in concessional financing from the African Development Bank's SEFA. The power station is in the development stage, under concessional terms by the company Ségou Solaire, a subsidiary of Scatec, a Norwegian conglomerate, under a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement.
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