{"id":"congo-kintele-solar-farm-data-center-2026","canonicalSlug":"kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","language":"en","title":"Kintélé solar farm is planned to support Congo’s new national data centre","summary":"Officials linked the solar site to more reliable power for a data centre targeted to open by year-end.","body":["Republic of Congo officials inspected the national data centre in Brazzaville’s Bacongo district and the Kintélé solar site on 22 September 2026, according to state news agency ACI. The agency reported on the visit on 24 September. Vice-Prime Minister Jean-Jacques Bouya said the data centre was 82% complete and could become operational by the end of 2026.","ACI reported that Kintélé’s solar field has 19,354 panels, 12 megawatts of capacity and eight converters. The article also gives “40 megawatts per hour,” a unit as printed in the source that is not a standard way to express storage or generation capacity; this report therefore does not interpret it as battery capacity. Officials said solar supply would be combined with the national utility E2C grid to improve reliable energy for the data centre.","The information minister Frédéric Nzé said the data centre needed dependable electricity and that the solar installation could offer a more resilient and economical supply model than relying only on an unstable grid or diesel generators. The report describes project plans and an inspection, not completed commissioning or measured operating performance."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Kintélé solar farm is planned to support Congo’s new national data centre\n\nOfficials linked the solar site to more reliable power for a data centre targeted to open by year-end.\n\nRepublic of Congo officials inspected the national data centre in Brazzaville’s Bacongo district and the Kintélé solar site on 22 September 2026, according to state news agency ACI. The agency reported on the visit on 24 September. Vice-Prime Minister Jean-Jacques Bouya said the data centre was 82% complete and could become operational by the end of 2026.\n\nACI reported that Kintélé’s solar field has 19,354 panels, 12 megawatts of capacity and eight converters. The article also gives “40 megawatts per hour,” a unit as printed in the source that is not a standard way to express storage or generation capacity; this report therefore does not interpret it as battery capacity. Officials said solar supply would be combined with the national utility E2C grid to improve reliable energy for the data centre.\n\nThe information minister Frédéric Nzé said the data centre needed dependable electricity and that the solar installation could offer a more resilient and economical supply model than relying only on an unstable grid or diesel generators. The report describes project plans and an inspection, not completed commissioning or measured operating performance.","category":"energy","region":"world","topics":[],"eventDate":"2026-09-22","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T20:15:13Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-06T20:15:13Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":null,"sourcePublishedAt":"2026-09-24","translatedAt":null,"sources":[{"name":"Agence Congolaise d’Information","url":"https://www.aci.cg/congo-infrastructures-le-data-center-operationnelle-dici-fin-2026/","checkedAt":"2026-10-06","publishedAt":"2026-09-24"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/kinte-le-solar-farm-is-planned-to-support-congo-s-new-national-data-centre"},"corrections":[],"locations":[]}