Limbe is a 10.6 MW oil power plant in South-West Province, Cameroon. It ranks #12 of 12 Cameroon power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 4.8% of Cameroon's electricity; the national grid averages 226 gCO₂/kWh (73.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1023035.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 10.6 MW, Limbe is below the median oil plant in Cameroon (16 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #6 largest oil power plant of 6 in Cameroon by capacity.
Cameroon has 6 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 199 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 4.0167, 9.2 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Limbe is a 10.6 MW oil power plant in South-West Province, Cameroon, Pre Construction 2029.
