{"id":22878,"date":"2016-01-31T01:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gigawatt-global-rwanda-solar-field-nominated-for\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T08:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:20:38","slug":"gigawatt-global-rwanda-solar-field-nominated-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gigawatt-global-rwanda-solar-field-nominated-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigawatt Global Rwanda solar field nominated for State Department award"},"content":{"rendered":"

{An American-Israeli led solar developer has been nominated for a US Department of State award of excellence in environmental sustainability following the successful construction of East Africa\u2019s first utility-scale photovoltaic field.}<\/p>\n

Gigawatt Global, an American-owned Dutch company co-founded by Jerusalemite Yosef Abramowitz, launched the 8.5-MW field last February, at the Israeli-inspired Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. The $23.7 million field, located about 60 km. from Kigali in Rwamagana district, supplies about 6 percent of the country\u2019s power and is expected to harness the sun\u2019s light for 25 years.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the State Department\u2019s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs announced that the company was chosen as one of 10 finalists for the 2015 Secretary of State\u2019s Award for Corporate Excellence, joined by only two other firms in the environmental sustainability category.<\/p>\n

The winners for that and the human and labor rights and small or medium enterprise categories, are slated to be announced on March 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cGigawatt Global in Rwanda revolutionized solar energy in East Africa, delivering 8.5 megawatts of grid-connected power that serves 15,000 homes in Rwanda, while providing the added benefit of rental income to the local community for use of their land,\u201d the State Department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The company is competing against Texas Instruments for a sustainable architecture project in the Philippines and Weyerhaeuser Productos S.A. for a clean energy program in Uruguay.<\/p>\n

In addition to its status as East Africa\u2019s first utility- scale solar facility, Gigawatt Global\u2019s Rwandan field is also the first project to be grid-connected under the framework of the US Power Africa initiative which President Barack Obama launched in June 2013, aiming to add more than 30 GW of cleaner energy to Africa, to power 60 million homes and businesses.<\/p>\n

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