The South Sudan Electricity Corporation (SSEC) is a parastatal company whose primary purpose is to generate electric power for use in South Sudan and for sale to neighboring countries.

History

The SSEC was established in 2012 under the Ministry of Energy and Mining of South Sudan, following the split from

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

and gaining independence the year before. At this point the country was only producing 25 MW of installed electricity generation capacity with only 1% of the country’s nine-million people having access to electricity. On January 24, 2014, the SSEC was approved for a grant from the

African Development Bank Group The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies in ...

to rehabilitate and expand the distribution networks in Juba.

SSEC Timeline

* *January 24, 2014: Received a US$26 million dollar grant from

to rehabilitate and expand the distribution networks in Juba.

Power stations

Operational stations

Power stations in development

References