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China Commits $49 Million for Burkina Faso’s Donsin Airport Solar Power Plant

The Donsin Airport solar power plant will be equipped with a battery electricity storage system.

Burkina Faso’s transitional parliament approved a $49 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of China (CHEXIM) that will help one of the world’s least electrified countries marginally increase its electricity generation.  

The country’s government officials and CHEXIM signed the concessional loan agreement in September 2023 to construct the 25 MWp solar power plant at Donsin airport in Loumbila, some 23 kilometers north-east of Ouagadougou, the country’s capital.

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