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Survey of Energy Resources 2007

OTEC Country Notes

Côte D'Ivoire
A French project to build two open cycle onshore OTEC plants of 3.5 MW each in Abidjan was proposed in 1939. The experimentation was eventually undertaken after World War II, with the main research effort occurring during 1953-1955. The process of producing desalinated water via OTEC proved to be uneconomic at that time and the project was abandoned in 1958.