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Rosatom offers African countries solar and small hydro projects
Russia’s Rosatom is offering non-nuclear energy projects to African countries that are not ready to join nuclear projects.
The company’s chief executive, Alexey Likhachev, described the work after a Russia-Africa forum in Moscow.
Rosatom is working with Mali on a solar plant with energy storage systems.
Talks with Congo have resumed on supplying small hydroelectric plants.
Likhachev said the company’s approach is based on partnership, equal access to advanced technology and rejecting technological neocolonialism.
The projects give countries options beyond nuclear power, though no completion dates or supply agreements were announced.
Rosatom is helping Mali develop a solar power plant with energy storage systems.
Negotiations with the Congo have resumed on supplying small-scale hydroelectric power plants.
Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said the projects are for countries not yet ready to participate in nuclear projects.
He made the remarks while discussing the results of the Russia-Africa forum in Moscow.
- Who
- Russia’s state corporation Rosatom, led by CEO Alexey Likhachev, is working with Mali and the Congo.
- What
- Rosatom is helping develop a solar power plant with energy storage in Mali and has resumed negotiations on supplying small hydroelectric plants to the Congo.
- When
- October 30, 2026.
- Where
- Mali and the Congo; Likhachev made his comments in Moscow.
- Why
- The projects offer non-nuclear energy technologies to countries not yet ready to join nuclear projects.
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- Mali
- Development of a solar power plant equipped with Rosatom energy storage systems
- Congo
- Negotiations resumed on supplying small-scale hydroelectric power plants
- Rosatom CEO
- Alexey Likhachev
- Announcement date
- October 30, 2026
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