In Ghana, five candidates have been selected to build the country’s first nuclear power plant. The announcement was made last week by the Ministry of Energy. In the running are France, the United States, China, Russia and Korea. The final selection will be announced before the end of the year.
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With our correspondent in Accra, Victor Cariou
One thousand megawatts: this is the quantity of electricity that the Ghana hopes to obtain thanks to its future and first nuclear power plant. A goal that the West African country will achieve in 2034, according to the statement made by Robert Sogbadji, in charge of nuclear energy within the Ministry of Energy, in an interview with Reuters this week last.
Ghana thus intends to put an end to energy production that is currently erratic: of the 5,500 megawatts of electricity produced by its infrastructure, only 4,500 are really available. A situation which has led to almost daily power cuts for several months.
The choice of the country in charge of the construction of this plant will be made by December, indicated Robert Sogbadji. He told Reuters that depending on the “ financial model and technical details, one or two candidates may be selected “.
The initial list of sixteen countries was reduced to five. We find France there with EDF, but also the United States, South Koreaas well as the Russian giant Rosatom and the China National Nuclear Corporation. The latter two are already engaged on the continent: Russia and China having signed agreements to build nuclear power plants in Burkina Faso and Uganda.