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Siemens Gamesa delivers turbines to

Djibouti’s 59-MW Goubet wind farm

DJIBOUTI SIEMENS Gamesa has this week delivered all the operational in mid-2021, for a minimum of 10
components for 17 of its SG3.4-132 turbines that years, with the option to renew. The electricity
it will install at its 59-MW Goubet wind farm generated will be sold by the consortium to Elec-
in Djibouti, despite the challenging conditions tricité de Djibouti, the national power generation
caused by COVID-19. company, for a period of 25 years.
Siemens Gamesa said that the wind farm This project is being be financed by a group
would almost double the country’s current of investors combining European development
installed power generation capacity. finance institutions and African private equity
The project will help reduce the cost of investors
electricity, increase energy independence and It is being backed by Africa Finance Cor-
decrease the country’s CO2 emissions. poration, the Dutch development bank FMO,
Djibouti has the ambitious goal of reducing Climate Investor One, which managed Dutch
its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 through sup- investment funds in green energy in Africa, Asia
plying of 100% of domestic energy demand out and Latin America, and local company Great
of renewables. Horn Investment Holdings SAS.
Despite high resource potential in Djibouti The project is covered by MIGA, the World
and opportunities for cross-border exports, Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee
there are still 110,000 households in the country Agency.
without access to power. “We believe that this project is the begin-
The 17 SG 3.4-132 wind turbines will be ning of a new partnership and we will be rely-
installed near the Goubet cove in the Gulf of ing on Siemens Gamesa’s extensive experience
Tadjoura, on a 395-hectare site in Djibouti. The in the region to deliver on the project within
wind farm electricity interconnection solution, the stipulated timeframe,” says Osaruyi Oro-
the civil works and 10 km of internal road and bosa-Ogbeide, vice-president for project devel-
tracks will be built as part of project. opment & investments at the Africa Finance
Siemens Gamesa will also provide mainte- Corporation.™
nance to the wind farm, which is scheduled to be

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