600 MW of electricity to harness in the Dja basin by 2020

The company Hydrochina just presented Hydro Mékin, a public Cameroonian company, a support programme for the establishment and operation, by 2020, of energy infrastructure with a global production capacity of 600 MW, we learned from reliable sources.

In practical terms, this is about two hydroelectric setups to be carried out on the Dja (460 MW) and Boumba (140 MW) rivers, both located in the Dja basin, the Cameroonian side of the large Congo basin, and whose hydroelectric potential is officially estimated at approximately 3,000 MW.

Developing of this potential is one of the main missions given by the Cameroonian government to the company Hydro Mékin. It is in this view that this company is spearheading the project for the construction of the Mékin dam (15 MW), under completion in the Southern region of Cameroon.

Built by China National Electric Engineering Corporation (CNEEC) with Chinese funding (approximately FCfa 25 billion), this energy infrastructure is essentially destined to supply the eight boroughs of the Dja and Lobo department in electricity.