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Power Plant
Somolec power plant
16th-largest power plant in Mauritania of 21 · top 62% worldwide (#18,360 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Mauritanian Electricity Co
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 180 MW
- Fuel
- gas
- Commissioned
- 2015
Comparable power plants · Mauritania · 21 ranked
- #1Megaton Moon Hybrid Solar project30.0 GW · solar
- #14Hynfra Nouakchott wind farm276 MW · wind
- #15Madkour Group power station180 MW · gas
- #16Somolec power plant180 MW · gas
- #17Ewa Green solar farm160 MW · solar
- #18Mauritania solar farm160 MW · solar
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Ewa Green solar farm3.6 km · Power Plant · 160 MW · solar
- Madkour Group power station3.9 km · Power Plant · 180 MW · gas
- Banda Gas-to-Power Project3.9 km · Power Plant · 120 MW · gas
- Mauritanie Cement Nouakchott Plant5.5 km · Cement Plant
- Mauricim Nouakchott Cement Plant6.8 km · Cement Plant
- Chinguitty Nouakchott Cement Plant7.2 km · Cement Plant
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)