Cameroon: Dibamba Power Plant
Multilateral Development Banks’ Collaboration, Infrastructure Investment Project Briefs, World Bank April 2016 - In 2009, the Government of Cameroon awarded AES Dibamba Power Development Corporation (DPDC) the right to develop an 86-MW thermal energy Independent Power Plant (IPP). The Dibamba Project provides Cameroon with peaking and reserve capacity in electricity generation, in order to meet the growing public sector and industrial demand for electricity.
The Dibamba Thermal Power Project comprises of the following components:
• The construction of a 88 MW power plant fuelled with heavy fuel oil (HFO) at the site in Yassa village; and
• The construction of energy transmission facilities, including:
- (i) A step-up substation at the plant site (11 to 90 kV) at the plant site; and
- (ii) A 1.8 km 90 kV double circuit transmission line between the plant and a connection to existing 90 kV transmission lines which run to Ngodi-Bekoko substation at Bekoko.
The power plant equipment is being provided by Wärtsilä whilst the substation and transmission lines EPC contractor is still to be approved.
