Eaton to provide elec equipment for Africa’s largest solar microgrid

Power management company Eaton announced on Friday that it would be providing electrical engineering services and power distribution equipment for the construction of a 5 MW solar microgrid system in Annobon province – an island off Equatorial Guinea, in central Africa. The microgrid had battery storage and was designed to supply reliable and predictable power to meet the off-grid community’s energy demand. It would, according to the group, be the largest self-sufficient solar microgrid project in Africa.