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Title: Cameroon: Kribi Power Plant

Language: English

Type: Document

Nature: Report

Published: January 1, 2017

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Country: Cameroon

Sector: Energy and Power

Topic: Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

Keywords: PPPs by Sector *, Energy and Power PPPs **, Cameroon, Fragile and Conflict-Affected States - FCS

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Document Summary:

Cameroon: Kribi Power Plant, Multilateral Development Banks’ Collaboration, Infrastructure Investment Project Briefs, AfDB, EIB, World Bank April 2017 - In 2009, the Government of Cameroon (GoC) awarded the Kribi Power Development Corporation (KPDC), a 20-year public-private partnership (PPP) to design, build, finance and operate the 216 MW Kribi natural gas-fired power plant, and associated transmission line. The Kribi power project  is the first gas-to-power PPP being implemented in Cameroon and in the Central- African region, under a traditional project finance structure and its success will pave the way for the country to make significant public investments as well as mobilize private sector investment. It will add to the overall stability and reliability of the power system, as such it will complement the development of Cameroon’s hydropower projects.

Document Details:

The Kribi Power Plant Project comprises:

  • The Power Plant - the construction of a 216 MW power plant fuelled with natural gas at the Mpolongwe Site
  • Energy Transmission Facilities - the construction of energy transmission facilities comprising:
  1. a step-up substation (11 to 225 kV) at the plant site at Mpolongwe;
  2. a circa 100 km 225 kV double circuit transmission line between the plant and the Mangombe 225/90 kV substation at Edéa;
  3. the connection of the transmission line at the Mangombe substation with installation of new 225 kV line bays.

The design life of the plant is 25 years.

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