Oyem Solar Power Station

	Oyem Solar Power Station Oyem Solar Power Station, is a planned Solar power, solar power plant in Gabon. The power station is under development by ''Amea Power'', a subsidiary of the ''Al Nowais Investments'' (ANI), based in the United Arab Emirates. Location The power station would be located outside the city centre of Oyem, the provincial capital of Woleu-Ntem Province, in the north of the county. Oyem is located approximately , by road, northeast of Libreville, the national capital and largest city in the country. Overview According to USAID, Gabon had an overall electrification rate of 89 percent (38 percent rural and 97 percent urban), as of 2016. As of then, national installed capacity was 443 megawatts, with 60 percent of the total coming from thermal fossil-fuel sources and 40 percent from renewable sources. As of 2019, installed national capacity had increased to 750 megawatts, with more than 50 percent derived from fossil-fuels. It is the objective of the Gabonese government to reduce dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly and its population is estimated at million people. There are coastal plains, mountains (the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the centre), and a savanna in the east. Since its independence from France in 1960, the sovereign state of Gabon has had three presidents. In the 1990s, it introduced a multi-party system and a democratic constitution that aimed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed some governmental institutions. With petroleum and foreign private investment, it has the fourth highest HDI in the region (after Mauritius, Seychelles and South Africa) and the fifth highest GDP per capita (PPP) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oyem Oyem is the capital of Woleu-Ntem province in northern Gabon, lying on the N2 road and the River Ntem. Geography The town lies on a plateau at an elevation of about . It is the administrative and transport center for the surrounding agricultural area. Oyem is located 411 kilometers away from the national capital, Libreville. History Oyem is named after a large tree that grows around the town. In the 1990s, there were several female Peace Corps officers raped and murdered in Gabon, stirring controversy over the safety of its locations. The town was sieged by rabid dogs in March 2004, who killed three of five residents infected. The town council was forced to shoot 50 strays. In October 2004, Oyem was affected by water and power cuts. In December of that year, it was severely affected by a rare typhoid fever outbreak which spread across northern Gabon. About 50 cases were reported in Oyem. Economy Cocoa and coffee are the most important cash crops in Oyem and are trucked to the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Woleu-Ntem Province Woleu-Ntem is the northernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km and named after Woleu and Ntem rivers that cross it. The provincial capital is Oyem, which had a total of 60,685 inhabitants in 2013. As Woleu-Ntem is the most northerly province of Gabon, it is the only province that borders Cameroon, and the only one with multiple foreign borders (other two being the Republics of the Congo and of Equatorial Guinea). It borders the following areas of these countries: * Sangha Department, Republic of the Congo – east South Province, Cameroon – north Kié-Ntem Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, north of Wele-Nzas * Wele-Nzas Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, east of Centro Sur and south of Kié-Ntem * Centro Sur Province, Equatorial Guinea – northwest, west of Wele-Nzas Domestically, it borders the following provinces: * Estuaire – southwest * Moyen-Ogooué – south * Ogooué-Ivindo – southeast Departments Woleu-Ntem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]