Energy
Cameroon: Maroua and Guider solar plants receive tax and customs exemptions
The Maroua (15 MW) and Guider (10 MW) solar plants construction project will benefit from the tax and customs exemptions provided by the 2013 private...
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Guider and Maroua solar power plants will cost XAF14 bln, ENEO reveals
The Guider (10MW) and Maroua (15MW) solar power plants will cost XAF14 billion, according to electric utility ENEO, which disclosed the figure in its...
ENEO posts XAF155 bln of debt to Independent power producers and fuel suppliers at end-2019
In its recently published 2019 annual report, Eneo indicates that during the 2019 financial year, it experienced an "unprecedented deterioration of its...
ENEO met its prepaid meter installation target in 2019 thanks to Hévécam, SIC, and CNPS (official)
By the end of 2019, electric utility Eneo had installed a little over 20,000 prepaid meters in Cameroon, thus achieving the target set at the beginning of...
Cameroon: Eneo to invest XAF3 billion to transfer 20MW of energy in the Northern regions
In late November 2020, ENEO started transferring part of the equipment of the Ahala thermal power plant to the northern region, to bridge the energy...
Cameroon to spend XAF2.2 bln monthly to provide additional 20MW in the northern regions
On November 30, Eneo's teams began dismantling equipment at the Ahala power plant in the suburbs of Yaoundé and transferring them to the cities of Garoua...
Cameroon: Memve’ele dam generated XAF27.641 bln revenues in April 2019-Oct 2020, MINEE estimates
90MW of energy is injected daily into the southern interconnected network thanks to the Memve’ele dam powered up on April 14, 2019, and the 225KV line...
Cameroon exported 6,182 mln m3 of LNG in Jan-Sep 2020
During the first nine months of 2020, Cameroon exported 6,182 million m3 of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Hilli Episseyo - the floating unit...
Cameroon: Sonatrel to build 460 km of electricity transport lines in the coming ten years
In its 2020-2030 investment plan, the National Society of Transport Electricity (SONATREL) informs that it intends to build 460km of 400-kV transport...
Cameroon intends to increase installed energy production capacity to 5000MW by 2030
Cameroon plans to increase its installed power generation capacity to 5,000MW by 2030 to meet local energy demand and even export the excess production to...
Cameroon plans to build its 2nd oil refinery in Kribi
Cameroon plans to build another refinery. Indeed, SONARA (which was the only refinery in the country) was the victim of a fire outbreak on May 31, 2019....
Cameroon-Congo: Preliminary studies on 600MW Chollet dam announced for Q1-2021
The preliminary studies for the construction of the Chollet hydroelectricity dam are scheduled for Q1-2021. This is part of the information obtained from...
The first pylon of Nachtigal dam’s transmission line has been completed, NHPC informs
The first pylon of the transmission line that will transfer energy from the Nachtigal dam (420 MW) has been completed, according to a recent announcement...
Cameroon: French citizen Patrick Bellet becomes the new NHPC chief operating officer
French citizen Patrick Bellet (photo) is, since October 1, 2020, the new chief operating officer (COO) of Nachtigal Hydro-Power Company (NHPC), the...
Cameroon: UpOwa obtains over XAF1.9 bln credit facility to boost solar energy offer
EDFI ElectriFI (an impact investment facility initiated by European Development Finance Institutions and funded by the European Union) recently signed...
Cameroon: Andritz Hydro offers to supply equipment for Nachtigal and Lom Pangar projects
The German company Andritz Hydro is offering to supply equipment for the Nachtigal (420 MW) and Lom Pangar projects, Cameroon’s Ministry of Economy...
Cameroon becomes one of Turkey’s four African gas suppliers
Thanks to Hilli Episeyo (the floating natural gas liquefaction plant commissioned off the coast of Kribi in 2018), Cameroon has become one of the four...
Eneo announces three days of electricity disruption in Yaoundé
From September 18 to 20, some Yaoundé neighborhoods will experience outages from 6 a.m to 2 p.m. According to electric utility ENEO, these planned outages...
Cameroon: 34,098 new households connected to the power grid in H1-2020, down 23% YoY (ENEO)
Electric utility ENEO informs that in the first six months of 2020, it connected 34,098 Cameroonian households to the power grid. This figure is down by...
Cameroon: EDC obtains water concession for energy generation
On September 7, 2020, Gaston Eloundou Essomba, Cameroon’s Minister of Water and Energy (MINEE) signed a water concession agreement with state-owned...
Eneo manufactured 6,500 concrete poles in collaboration with local SMEs in H1-2020
Between January and June 2020, half a dozen local companies contracted by Eneo Cameroon manufactured 6,500 concrete poles. These companies include SCCP...
Memve’élé dam: Nsimalen residents oppose the construction of pylons in Nkolzock
Nsimalen residents recently opposed the construction of pylons in Nkolzock, in the framework of the project aimed at building transmission lines between...
ENEO seeks contractors for its commercial operations
Eneo, the concessionaire of energy distribution in Cameroon, recently issued two calls for tender to select potential partners for its commercial...
Cameroon produced 225,918.84 m3 of LNG at end-June 2020 (SNH)
Cameroon produced 225,918.84 m3 (0.102 tons) of liquefied natural gas in June 2020, according to the National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH). Also,...
Cameroon: Government lowers tension in the energy sector with the payment of CFAF45.7 bln to ENEO
"The sector has been struggling over the past two years. But since the end of 2019, the government has decided to grasp the nettle and start resolving the...
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