UKSOL Enters Cameroon Solar Market
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UKSOL (www.uksol.uk) is pleased to announce that the company has entered the solar PV market in Cameroon, West Africa. This week the first shipment of UKSOL 300w mono modules has been shipped from UKSOL’s Chesterfield based distributor, Boiler Shop, on its way to Douala, Cameroon.
UKSOL solar PV modules will be sold through WILMOSOLAR which is based in Yaoundé which is the capital of Cameroon with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala.
So far, solar power - much of it small-scale and often installed by non-governmental organisations - provides only about one percent of Cameroon’s energy needs, according to 2017 government figures.
But now Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya “has thrown his hefty political weight in support of renewable energy and this has brought a new stimulating perspective,” Martine Akame Mesumbe, Director of gas exploitation at the Ministry of Water and Energy, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The government hopes to boost Cameroon’s electricity access in rural areas as part of its “Vision 2035” development plan, aimed at expanding the economy and slashing poverty to 10 percent.