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Survey of Energy Resources 2007

Hydropower Country Notes

Gabon

The Gabonese WEC Member Committee reports that the country has numerous watercourses, with a total area of nearly 10 000 km².

Gabon ’s technically exploitable hydro potential is more than 76 000 GWh/yr. Only around 1% of this potential is presently exploited.

Hydropower plants in operation at end-2005 were as follows:

Plant	Capacity (MW)	Average Generation (GWh/yr)
Kinguélé	58	410
Tchimbélé	68	260
Poubara 1	18	145
Poubara 2	18	145
Mbigou	0.3	1
Médouneu and Bongolo	0.2 and 5.4	12
Total	167.9	973