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(Arlington, VA) — Gigawatt Global, a leading solar and social development company and a partner of Power Africa and Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid sub-initiative, signed two international grants for a solar project in Burundi, where only four percent of the population has residential access to electricity. The proposed project, a 7.5 Megawatt (MW) solar field, will increase the country’s generation capacity by 15%. This follows on Gigawatt Global’s successful launch last month of East Africa’s largest utility-scale solar field, which added 6% to Rwanda’s electricity generation capacity and for which it was nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.