Kigali: Rwanda has inaugurated its first-ever wind power station as part of efforts to exploit renewable energies. The wind station sits on the Mount Jali, from where it will feed a big FM transmitter of the Rwandan Office of Information (ORINFOR), also installed on the hill overlooking Rwanda's capital city of Kigali.
Mount Jali is exposed to great winds, which in turn ensures the stability of the energy for the station.
Rwanda plans to raise its clean energy sources by more than 50 per cent by 2020.
In 2009, official statistics showed that Rwanda recorded a remarkable increase in key sectors of its economy, but such increase was not matched in the energy sector, due to the falling water level in rivers powering hydro-electric stations.
In June 2007, Africa's biggest solar power station was installed on the Mount Jali with about fifty solar panels, to compensate for the shortage in hydro-electric energy, following the fall in the water levels.
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