In 2004, the first Limbé Oil power plant was delivered by AES Sonel, Cameroon, to help solve the problem of the increasing demand for electricity in the dry season from 2000-2003, due to the very dry seasons in the country then.

This helped to cover the shortfall in the country, but with the growing population, there is a need to expand the Limbé power plant to serve its intended purpose.

After many years in which the project has been developed iteratively, the Cameroonian Government has asked for a call of expression of interest for the gas-fired thermal power plant in Limbé, South-West Cameroon, to be done before July 10, 2020.

According to the timeline set by the government, the project is scheduled for completion by 2024. The plant is to have a production capacity of 350MW, and the call for expression is to identify potential partners for the building, operation, and transfer mode of the gas-fired thermal power plant.

The power plant is to be a combined-cycle gas-fired plant. It will include the conversion of natural gas of the already-existing 85MW heavy-fuel-oil-fired reciprocating power plant, and the addition of 256MW of new-plant capacity.

The project, which has been lingering for years, seems to have almost reached its final approval and beginning stage. The Ministry of Water Resources Energy of Cameroon (Ministère de l’Eau et de l’Energie, MINEE), in a statement, said that the power plant is aimed at improving the electricity supply in the Littoral, West and South-West regions of the country.