A US$22.58 million contract was inked on Wednesday for the construction of a 15-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Linden, and when completed, the mega project will be the largest solar farm in Guyana.
A Chinese joint venture between SUMEC Complete Equipment and Engineering Company and XJ Group Corporation has undertaken the project, working alongside the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) through the GUYSOL programme.
Team leader of GPL’s Executive Management, Kesh Nandlall said the engineering, procurement, and construction contract will lead to the development of three solar systems in Linden.
Linden’s current electricity demand stands at about 11 MW. Therefore, this solar project, which includes batteries for power storage, will ably meet the demand and cater to any growth in the Region’s energy needs.
“This is the largest single investment in renewable and solar PV energy in Guyana,” Nandlall declared at a contract signing event held Wednesday at the Watooka Guesthouse, Linden.
The contract for the Linden solar farm project was signed at the Watooka Guesthouse (Photo: Shaconeil Burnette/ May 21, 2025)
The project will also allow the government to slash the amount of money invested each year to subsidise the cost of purchasing and distributing electricity in Linden. Guyana’s Prime Minister, Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips, however, emphasised that the government will not hike the cost of electricity.
And he vowed, “The needs of electricity of linden will be supplied by this solar farm which will be ready sometime in 2026 and we will be able to use less fossil fuels… and contribute to saving the planet.”
The initiative falls under the Guyana Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic (GUYSOL) programme. It uses funds Guyana earned from Norway to keep its rainforests intact; the money was kept in the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF).
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