Zambia gearing for 100-MW solar tender

Zambia is preparing to launch a tender for 100 MW of solar capacity in early 2018, it was announced on Monday.

Projects of up to 20 MW will compete for long-term power purchase agreements (PPA). The tender comes under the GET FIT Zambia programme launched last week. Managed by German development bank KfW, the initiative involves the implementation of Zambia’s first renewable energy feed-in-tariff (FiT) strategy, targeting the addition of 200 MW of small-scale renewables in three years.

According to the tender requirements, published on the website of the FET ZIT Zambia initiative, each bidder will be allowed to bid for up to two sites. The solar power plants will feed their output into the grid of local power distribution firm Zesco.

The proposed projects have to be situated in proximity to selected substations within Zesco’s network in the country. Projects will be divided in four categories, depending on the plant capacity and its proximity to a reliable substation.

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