UK company Solarcentury said on Friday that it will install three rooftop solar plants, a carport array and a battery storage system, totaling 1.1 MWp of capacity, at two locations in Kenya for a local insect research center.
Two of the rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems and the carport array will be deployed at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology’s (ICIPE) Duduville Campus in Nairobi, while the third one and the battery will be installed at the Thomas Odhiambo Campus.
Solarcentury expects to start work on site in July and to complete the project by October 2016. Over the past two years, the company has built a solar park for a tea farm along with a solar carport on the roof of a Mall in the African country.
This latest Kh 254 Million(USD-2.5-million)(EUR 2.2m) scheme, part of the ICIPE Greening project, is being financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
