Cameroon's Ministry of Water and Energy has announced that the 420 MW Nachtigal hydropower plant has started supplying electricity to the Cameroonian grid, as the first 60 MW unit of the power plant has been commissioned. The commissioning of the six other units will be done progressively, at a rate of one unit per month, to achieve commercial operation of the power plant by the end of 2024.
The Nachtigal plant, which will become the most powerful power plant in Cameroon, will provide power to the country’s Southern Interconnected Grid. The XAF786bn (US$1.3bn) Nachtigal Dam will increase electricity production capacities in Cameroon by 30%. Nachtigal will also allow the export of electricity through the Cameroon-Chad Electricity Grid Interconnection Project (Pirect), which will enable Cameroon to supply 100 MW of electricity to Chad by 2027.
As of end-2021, hydro represented 46% of Cameroon’s installed capacity and 61% of its power generation.
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