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Banking on the sunAlthough construction on B2Gold’s solar plant in Mali is currently on hold, the company is committed to the alternative energy source

Although construction on B2Gold’s solar plant in Mali is currently on hold, the company is committed to the alternative energy source

By Lynn Greiner

July 06, 2020

B2Gold Corp. is building a $38 million hybrid solar/heavy fuel oil plant at its Fekola mine in Mali, and expecting to save $9 million in energy costs per year. Courtesy of Christian Stiebahl

Building on the success of the solar project at its Otjikoto mine in Namibia, B2Gold’s Fekola mine in Mali will eventually be home to one of the largest off-grid hybrid solar/heavy fuel oil (HFO) plants in the world.

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