Essakane (15 MWp), Burkina Faso

Together with AEMP (Africa Energy Management Platform), its strategic development partner for B2B projects in Africa, Total Eren has successfully developed, financed and built, and now operates, a 15 MW solar PV plant coupled with a Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) power plant for IAMGOLD's Essakane mine in Burkina Faso. Each year, the power plants allows the Mine to decrease its fuel consumption by approximately 6 million liters of fuel oil, and to reduce its annual CO₂ emissions by nearly 18,500 tons. Made up of close to 130,000 photovoltaic panels, Essakane Solar is the largest hybrid PV-HFO plant in the world and one of the largest solar facilities in sub-Saharan Africa.