Oyem Solar Power Station, is a planned 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 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 ...

, the provincial capital of

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 i ...

, in the north of the county. Oyem is located approximately , by road, northeast of

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

, the national capital and largest city in the country.

Overview

According to

USAID The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...

, 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 dependence on fossil-fuels for its electricity needs and to increase the number of renewable energy sources and the quantity of electricity derived therefrom. Oyem Solar Farm helps to satisfy this objective. This power station is intended to supply energy to Woleu-Ntem Province where it is based and to neighboring

Ogooué-Ivindo Province Ogooué-Ivindo Province is the northeasternmost of Gabon's nine provinces, though its Lopé Department is in the very center of the country. It gets its name from two rivers, the Ogooué and the Ivindo. This province, containing thousands of s ...

Developers

The power station is being developed by ''AMEA Power'', an independent power producer (IPP), based in the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

, and is active in Africa. AMEA Power also owns and operates

Blitta Solar Power Station The Blitta Solar Power Station is an operational solar power plant in Togo. The power station was developed by ''Amea Power'', an independent power producer (IPP), based in the United Arab Emirates. The solar farm, which is the largest grid ...

(50 megawatts), in

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

References

External links

Website of AMEA Power LLC
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