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SCDP to raise its gasoline storage capacity by 20,000 m3
Cameroonian oil products’ keeper Société Camerounaise des dépôts pétroliers (SCDP) just launched an international call for expression of interest to...
Construction of 75 MW Bini dam has not started yet despite the energy minister’s previous assurance
The minister of water and energy’s visit, in February 2019, to the Bini 75 MW dam’s construction site, in Adamaoua, changed nothing about the static...
Cameroon: Yaoundé residents affected by fire at an energy distribution station
Most Yaoundé residents are currently in the dark because of frequent power outages. ENEO, the institution in charge of energy distribution in Cameroon,...
Cameroon : Sinohydro to carry out technical studies of 20MW Lagdo solar power plant
Cameroon has tasked Chinese firm Sinohydro with studies for the designing, financing, development and maintenance of a 20MW solar plant in Lagdo, in the...
NHPC advised to outsource some of Nachtigal dam’s construction works to local SMEs
Cameroonian minister of water and energy Gaston Eloundou Essomba recently visited the site of Nachtigal dam. During his visit, he advised the...
Orange Cameroon launches energy distribution offer with solar kits
Orange Cameroon just launched its energy distribution offer via solar kits, internal sources reveal. Baptized Orange Énergie, this offer also includes...
Cameroonian Georges Bassalang Bolemen appointed Tradex Equatorial Guinea’s managing director
Cameroon’s native Georges Bassalang Bolemen has been appointed as the managing director of Tradex Equatorial Guinea. This is revealed by the Cameroonian...
Cameroon: GDS Orion Solar to invest XAF15 billion in Ngaoundéré solar plant (20MW)
GDS Orion Solar plans to invest XAF15 billion in the construction of its 20MW solar plant in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. This information was revealed on June...
Cameroon: Government’s domestic gas subsidies up from XAF32 bln to XAF35 bln in 2018 (CSPH)
In Cameroon, the oil products’ price stabilization institution CSPH provided XAF35 billion to subsidize domestic gas during the 2018 fiscal year....
Cameroon : SNH supplies clean and cheap energy to 41 companies using GDC’s distribution network
Société nationale des hydrocarbures (SNH), Cameroon’s company that negotiates oil and gas contracts, informs that on June 1, 2019, 41 companies were...
Cameroon: The construction of Mbakaou mini hydropower plant launched by a private producer
On June 20, 2019, the foundation stone of the Mbakaou mini hydropower plant was laid in Adamaoua. The project carried out by an independent producer IED...
Cameroonian Monique Ntumngia receives the WWF Africa Youth Award 2019
On June 14, 2019, 29-year old Cameroonian Monique Ntumngia was awarded the WWF Africa Youth Award 2019 in Mombassa, Kenya. This is the second time...
EDC receives 170 MW of guaranteed hydraulic power every year thanks to Lom Pangar dam
Since 2015 when Lom Pangar dam was filled, Songloulou and Edéa power plants have had a guaranteed hydraulic power of 170 MW every year. This was...
Cameroon’s oil refinery burned down, government says it is "an accident"
An explosion caused fire in the national oil refinery (Sonara)’s unit located at Limbe, Southwest region, on May 31, burning down part of the company’s...
KGAL New Frontiers acquires stake in SunErgy, a Norwegian company aiming for the Cameroonian market
Private Equity Fund KGAL New Frontiers, founded in 2018 by German KGAL, acquired 22% stake in SunErgy, a Norwegian company specialized in off-grid power...
Eneo kicks off Distribution Grid Reinforcement in Yaoundé
Power cuts have recently become recurrent, at daytime, in many districts of Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital. This is the consequence of reinforcement...
Cameroon: London-based YF Finance raises shares in Victoria Oil and Gas
London-based investment firm YF Finance pumps an additional £5.85 million ($7.7 million) in the equity of AIM-quoted Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG), the...
Cameroon: Victoria Oil and Gas resumes deal with Eneo
Natural gas producer Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG) announced the resumption of natural gas delivery, since December 22, to Cameroon’s power utility Eneo,...
Victoria Oil and Gas shares rise on LSE, on new deal with Eneo
The share of Victoria Oil and Gas (VOG), an independent oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the...
Cameroon: Average rate of fuel pollution in 2018 reduced to 1.97% compared with 3% in 2017 (Minee)
Presenting his ministry’s activities before the parliament on November 25, Gaston Eloundou Essomba, the minister of water and energy (Minee), reported...
Cameroon: National brewer SABC sets a solar plant in Akonolinga to power its distribution center
The distribution center of Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun (SABC) in Akonolinga, Central region, now operates with solar energy since September...
Cameroon: Switzerland sets a CFA3.4 billion fund to promote renewable energy projects
Switzerland disburses CFA3.4 billion to promote renewable energy projects in Cameroon. This was revealed on March 14, 2018, during the first meeting of...
South Korea delivers a renewable energies development's master plan to Cameroon
Designed since 2013 by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the master plan for the development of renewable energies was officially delivered...
Cameroon: CFA10 billion to fund SMEs specialized in renewable energies
The French development bank (Agence française de développement -AFD) and SCB Cameroon, subsidiary of the Moroccan banking group Attijariwafa Bank, just...
Cameroon: ENEO demands about CFA100 billion from the government
Good sources revealed that Cameroon owes Energy of Cameroon (ENEO), the country’s power utility, around CFA100 billion. This debt comprises the bill for...
Cameroonian Monique Ntumngia wins prize for promoting renewable energy organised in Rwanda
Young Cameroonian lawyer aged 27, Monique Ntumngia has just won the first prize in the competition "Green Girls Monafrick Energy", organised on 17 August...
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