List of power plants in Sierra Leone

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This is a list of Sierra Leone's current and planned power plants .

The public energy supply company is the National Power Authority of the Ministry of Energy , which since 2011 has been divided into the Electricity Generation and Transmission Company (EGTC) (power generation and distribution) and the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) ( power supply and regulation) on the basis of the National Electricity Act should be (as of August 2017).

Current supply

Sierra Leones is one of the few independent states that has to do almost entirely without public energy generation . The majority of the population has no connection to an electricity grid. The capital Freetown can only provide about four hours of electricity a day (as of July 2017). There are also frequent power outages during supply times . The 2015 census found that only about 6,450 households nationwide (out of 1.265 million) have access to electricity. This corresponds to a share of 0.5 percent. Other sources say that in rural areas only one percent of the population is connected to the electricity grid; in the cities approx. 12%. All residents should have access to electricity by 2025.

Only since 2013 there is the Bumbuna - hydroelectric power plant , a first public power plant . The power supply is largely based on individual diesel generators at household level.

Power plants in operation

KW name Power in MW Location operator status Art
Bankasoka 02.0 Port Loko National Power Authority Commissioning in 2017 Hydropower
Bumbuna 50.0 Bumbuna National Power Authority Commissioning 2013 Hydropower
Charlotte Falls 02.2 Charlotte Falls National Power Authority Hydropower
Dodo Falls 06.0 Dodo Falls Bo-Kenema Power Services Hydropower
King Tom 39.16 Freetown National Power Authority Diesel fuel
Port Loko 30.0 Port Loko National Power Authority Heavy fuel oil
Sunbird Bioenergy 32.0 Makeni Sunbird Bioenergy Sierra Leone Biomass power plant
TOTAL 161.18

Planned power plants

KW name Power in MW Location operator status Art
Bumbuna II 143.0 Bumbuna National Power Authority until 2021 Hydropower
057.0 Western Area Copperbeld Energy Corporation planned since the beginning of 2017 Thermal power plant with fossil fuel
Newton 006.0 Newton Infinity E-Consortium planned Photovoltaics
54 small power plants nationwide since 2017 solar power
TOTAL 206.0

literature

  • Rapid Assessment Gap Analysis Sierra Leone. Sustainable Energy for All, 2012. ( PDF; English )

Web links

Individual evidence