West African gold producer SEMAFO was invited to help solve the diesel dependency issue faced by operators in Burkina Faso. The business model they came up with was so successful they spun off a renewable energy power producer, Windiga. “Leaders of the company soon realized that they could build a solar plant that would supply 20 megawatts of power and then sell that energy directly the state-owned utility“.
Windiga’s director of operations, Ugo Landry-Tolszczu provides strategy and insight