Kigali Solaire Kigali Solaire Kigali Solaire is a solar power plant in Rwanda and at the time of construction was Africas largest grid-linked solar energy installation. It was built in 2007 on Mont Jali near the capital Kigali. The plant is using photovoltaics and has a peak output of 250 kW and an estimated annual output of 325,000 kWh. It was constructed and built by the German city of Mainz's utility company Stadtwerke Mainz representing the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which has a partnership with Rwanda. The plant is only part of the initiative, consisting also of distributing 50 photovoltaic panels of
Kigali it remained a relatively small city until the 1970s due to government policies restricting rural-to-urban migration. The population reached 115,000 by 1978, and 235,000 by 1991. The city lost a large fraction of its population during the 1994 genocide, including those killed and those who fled to neighbouring countries. From 1995, however, the economy began to recover and large numbers of long-term Tutsi refugees returned from Uganda. Many of these refugees settled in Kigali and other urban areas, due to difficulty in obtaining land in other parts of the country. This phenomenon, coupled with a high birth rate and increased