Since BECO was upgrading to 33kv due to the need for electricity growing day by day very rapidly we saw putting a generation plant away from the city was suitable.
Jabad-Geele is a power plant located 25KM out of Mogadishu. The plant generates 33KV transmitted to the substations and distributed to the customers.
Following the success of Darusalaam Solar plant, BECO started investing more into green energy, installing Jabad-Geele Phase 1 Solar plant with a capacity of 5.5MW.
The plant was commissioned in 2020 and now 17% of the energy produced from the plant is environmentally friendly green energy.
Overview & Challenge
Wind and solar energy are complementary to each other, which makes the system to generate electricity almost throughout the year. The main components of the Wind Solar Hybrid System are wind aero generator and tower, solar photovoltaic panels, batteries, cables, charge controller and inverter. The Wind – Solar Hybrid System generates electricity that can be used for charging batteries and with the use of inverter we can run AC appliances. Wind aero-generator is installed on a tower having a minimum height of 18 mtrs. from the ground level. Because of the height, the aero-generator gets wind at higher speed and thereby generates more power.The Wind – Solar Hybrid System generates electricity that can be used for charging batteries and with the use of inverter we can run AC appliances.