{"id":200923,"date":"2025-06-26T01:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nampower-breaks-ground-for-biggest-solar-plant-n1-8-billion-investment-to-be-completed-in-18-months\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T23:51:59","slug":"namibia-nampower-breaks-ground-for-biggest-solar-plant-n1-8-billion-investment-to-be-completed-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nampower-breaks-ground-for-biggest-solar-plant-n1-8-billion-investment-to-be-completed-in-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nampower Breaks Ground for Biggest Solar Plant &#8230;N$1.8 Billion Investment to Be Completed in 18 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Rosh Pinah \u2014 NamPower recently made history by breaking ground for the biggest solar power plant ever to be constructed in the country, constituting an investment of N$1.6 billion. The historic groundbreaking ceremony took place last week for the 100 MV Sores IGaib, outside the southern town of Rosh Pinah, for the solar power station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">IGaib means &#8216;Power of the Sun&#8217; in Khoekhoegowab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The N$1.6 billion infrastructure is scheduled to be completed over a period of 18 months by China Jiangxi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosh Pinah \u2014 NamPower recently made history by breaking ground for the biggest solar power plant ever to be constructed in the country, constituting an investment of N$1.6 billion. The historic groundbreaking ceremony took place last week for the 100 MV Sores IGaib, outside the southern town of Rosh Pinah, for the solar power station. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[51734,258,256,8645,6495,9189,9296,6914,6018,7061,4706,724,3677,257,8489,4631,254],"class_list":["post-200923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-n1-8","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biggest","tag-billion","tag-breaks","tag-completed","tag-ground","tag-investment","tag-months","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nampower","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}