{"id":242654,"date":"2026-08-30T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-solar-photovoltaic-power-plant-nears-completion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:34:38","slug":"botswana-lobatse-solar-photovoltaic-power-plant-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-solar-photovoltaic-power-plant-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Lobatse Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Nears Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Lobatse \u2014 The Lobatse Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant is now 85 per cent complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Addressing a full council meeting recently, Lobatse Mayor Mr Mosimanegape Ganakgomo said the town was increasingly embracing green energy through initiatives such as the Rooftop Solar Programme, the Solar Power Plant and the Free Electricity Connection Programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He said the 4-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant, located on the outskirts of Lobatse, was nearing completion after recording an 85 per cent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobatse \u2014 The Lobatse Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant is now 85 per cent complete. Addressing a full council meeting recently, Lobatse Mayor Mr Mosimanegape Ganakgomo said the town was increasingly embracing green energy through initiatives such as the Rooftop Solar Programme, the Solar Power Plant and the Free Electricity Connection Programme. He said the 4-megawatt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242655,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,16899,12103,6145,257,12580,8489,7047,4631,254],"class_list":["post-242654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-completion","tag-lobatse","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-photovoltaic","tag-plant","tag-power","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\/242654","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=242654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}