The project is located on the Sanaga River, 65 km north of Yaoundé. BESIX is helping build the hydro-electric infrastructures, which will have a production capacity of 420 MW.
The client, Nachtigal Hydro Power Company (NHPC), is a consortium of EDF International, the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) and the State of Cameroon, and is the largest public-private partnership under way in Africa in the energy sector. Its funding structure received a prize from Project Finance International (PFI), a reference in the field.
