Okpella Cement power station

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Okpella Cement power station is an operating power station of at least 60-megawatts (MW) in Okpella, Edo, Nigeria.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Okpella Cement power station	Okpella, Edo, Nigeria	7.344217, 6.462388 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name	Status	Fuel(s)	Capacity (MW)	Technology	Start year
Unit 1	Operating	coal: unknown	30	unknown	2022
Unit 2	Operating	coal: unknown	30	unknown	2022

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Owner	Parent
Dangote Industries Ltd [100%]	Dangote Industries Ltd [100.0%]

Project-level captive use details

• Captive industry use (heat or power): power
• Captive industry: Cement & Building

Background

In April 2016, the Dangote Group held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new cement plant in Okpella in Edo state. Dangote stated the cement plant would be powered with coal, but no other details on the proposed power plant were reported at the time.

According to reporting from July 2021, the Okpella cement plant would have a 60 MW captive power plant. A social media post on the cement plant by Governor Godwin Obaseki indicated that the power plant would consist of two 30 MW units and be dual fuel, burning coal and an unnamed alternative fuel.

In their third quarter results from 2022, Dangote announced that the Okpella power plant was commissioned in August 2022.

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Additional data

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