The following page lists all power stations in Burkina Faso .
Hydroelectric station | Community | Coordinates | Type | Capacity | Year completed | Reservoir | River |
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Kompienga Hydroelectric Power Station | Kompienga Province | 11°04′57″N0°42′03″E / 11.0824°N 0.7009°E | Reservoir | 14 MW [1] | 1989 | Lake Kompienga | Ouale River |
Bagré Hydroelectric Power Station | Bagré Town | 11°27′46″N0°33′30″W / 11.4629°N 0.5583°W | Reservoir | 16 MW | 1994 | Lake Bagre [2] | Nakambe River |
Thermal power station | Community | Coordinates | Fuel type | Capacity | Year completed | Owner | Notes |
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Bobo-Dioulasso Power Station | Bobo-Dioulasso | Diesel fuel | 43 MW [3] | SONABEL | |||
Ouagadougou Power Station | Ouagadougou | Diesel fuel | 22 MW | 2012 | SONABEL | ||
Kona Thermal Power Station | Kona | Diesel fuel | 22 MW | Semafo of Canada | |||
Fada N'gourma Thermal Power Station | Fada N'gourma | Diesel fuel | 7.5 MW | SONABEL | In development | ||
Ouahigouya Thermal Power Station [4] | Ouahigouya | Diesel fuel | 7.5 MW | SONABEL | In development | ||
Solar power station | Community | Coordinates | Capacity | Year completed | Owner | Notes |
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Kodeni Solar Power Station | Bobo-Dioulasso | 11°06′59″N04°22′34″W / 11.11639°N 4.37611°W | 38 MW | December 2023 [5] | Kodeni Solar SASU | [6] |
Nagreongo Solar Power Station | Nagréongo | 12°28′32″N01°12′14″W / 12.47556°N 1.20389°W | 30 MW | July 2022 [7] | SPES Ouagadougou | [8] |
Pâ Solar Power Station | Pâ | 11°33′52″N03°15′38″W / 11.56444°N 3.26056°W | 30 MW | December 2023 [5] | Pâ Solar Consortium | [5] |
Zagtouli Solar Power Station | Zagtouli | 12°24′47″N01°32′54″W / 12.41306°N 1.54833°W | 33 MW | November 2017 [9] | Cegelec | [9] |
The Fana Solar Power Station is a planned 50 MW (67,000 hp) solar power plant in Mali. The power station is in the development stage, under concessional terms by the company Legendre Energy, a subsidiary of the Legendre Group, a French conglomerate, under a public private partnership arrangement.
Pâ Solar Power Station, is a 30 megawatts (40,000 hp) solar power plant in Burkina Faso. The power station was commercially commissioned in December 2023.
The Dondo Solar Power Station is a planned 40 MW (54,000 hp) solar power plant in Mozambique. The power station is part of a 160 megawatts energy package of four renewable energy power stations under development in the country. They comprise three solar power stations in the districts of Dondo, Lichinga and Chiuta, together with a wind farm in Inhambane Province. Each power station will have maximum generation capacity of 40 MW.
Ayebo Biomass Power Station, also Biovéa Biomass Power Station, is a 46 MW (62,000 hp) biomass-fired thermal power plant under development in Ivory Coast. Biovéa Énergie SA, a special purpose vehicle company, has been awarded the concession contract to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain the power station. As raw material, the power station is designed to use palm oil waste.
The Golomoti Solar Power Station is a 20 MW (27,000 hp) solar power plant in Malawi. The power station was developed by a consortium comprising InfraCo Africa of the United Kingdom and JCM Power, a Canadian independent power producer. Construction began during the first quarter of 2021. The solar farm came online during the second quarter of 2022.
The Boikanyo Solar Power Station is a 50 MW (67,000 hp) solar power plant in South Africa. It is a grid-connected, privately owned and privately funded solar power station. The power station, which took about one year to construct, reached "grid code compliance" on 9 April 2021 and provided 450 construction jobs.
The Gourou Banda Solar Power Station is a 50 MW (67,000 hp) solar power plant under construction in Niger. This renewable energy infrastructure project is under development by an independent power producer (IPP), under the build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) model, with support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, as part of the bank's "Scaling Solar" program. The solar farm, first conceived in 2018, as a 20 megawatts installation, was expanded to capacity of 50 megawatts in 2020.
The Nagreongo Solar Power Station, also Nagréongo Solar Power Station, is a 30 MW (40,000 hp) solar power in Burkina Faso. The solar farm, which was commissioned in July 2022, was developed by the French IPP, GreenYellow, a subsidiary of the Casino Group. The energy generated here is sold to the Burkinabe electricity utility company SONABEL,, under a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA).
Kodeni Solar Power Station, is a 38 MW (51,000 hp) solar power plant in Burkina Faso. The solar farm was development by the French IPP, Africa Ren, with funding from European financial institutions, led by FMO Entrepreneurial Development Bank of the Netherlands. Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL), the state-owned electricity utility company signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA), with Koden Solar SASU, the special purpose vehicle company established by the owners to own, develop, operate and maintain the solar farm. The power station reached commercial commissioning in December 2023.
Illoulofin Solar Power Station, is a 50 megawatts (67,000 hp) solar power plant in Benin, whose first 25 MW was commissioned on 19 July 2022, and the next 25 MW is under construction and is expected to come online in 2025.
The Zina Solar Power Station is a 26.6 megawatts solar power plant under construction in Burkina Faso. The power station is owned and is being developed by a consortium comprising Amea Power, an independent power producer (IPP), based in the United Arab Emirates and Windiga Energy, an IPP based in Canada. The energy off-taker for this solar farm is Société Nationale d'électricité du Burkina Faso (SONABEL), the Burkinabe national electricity utility company. A 25-year power purchase agreement, governs the terms of the sale of electricity to SONABEL. Financial close for the power station was reached in May 2022.
The Sirius 1 Solar Power Station, is an 86 MW solar power station in South Africa. The power station was developed by a joint venture between Aurora Power Solutions and Sirius Solar PV Project One. The off-taker of the energy generated here is Eskom Holdings, the South African national electricity utility parastatal company. A 20-year power purchase agreement between Eskom and the owners of the power station, governs the purchase and sale of electricity between the two. Commercial commissioning was achieved in February 2020.
The Bolobedu Solar Power Station is an 148 MW solar power plant planned in South Africa. The solar farm is owned and under development by a consortium led by Voltalia, the French multinational independent power producer (IPP) and Black South African shareholders, including a community trust. The off-taker of the power generated here is Richards Bay Minerals (RBM), a South African mining company owned by the Anglo-Australian mining conglomerate, Rio Tinto. The power will be conveyed from the solar farm to the customer's mine using the transmission lines of Eskom, the national electricity parastatal company, as is permissible under South African law.
The Kairouan Power Station, also Kairouan Solar Park 3, is a 120 MW (160,000 hp) solar power plant under development in Tunisia. The power station is owned and under development by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company, under the public private partnership (PPP) arrangement. The lead investor is Amea Power, an independent power producer (IPP), based in the United Arab Emirates.