The President of the Republic, Head of State, His Excellency Issoufou Mahamadou inaugurated the first crude oil thermal power plant in Niger on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, located in the Goudel district of Niamey. The inauguration ceremony took place in the presence of the Presidents of the Institutions, members of the Government, those of the Diplomatic Corps, international organizations, representatives of the PTF, regional and communal officials

With a capacity of 89 MW, this thermal power plant was built under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement, in BOOT mode by the Mauritanian company Istithmar WEST AFRICA. The work was supervised by the Ministry of Energy and NIGELEC. The cost of the Goudel and Zinder Power Plants Project is 66.25 billion FCFA

“Energy is one of the priorities, because we are convinced that there is no economic development for a country without electrical energy,” said Head of State Issoufou Mahamadou. He continues: “Moreover, installed electrical power is an indicator of power at the country level. We therefore decided to exploit all available sources of energy at a lower cost to fuel economic development in Niger, because our villages, our industries, our agriculture etc. need energy.”
The Goudel power plant includes, among other things, a machine room consisting of six generators with a unit capacity of 14.82 MW each with their auxiliaries and a cell room consisting of medium voltage and low voltage protection cells, a control room including the SCADA control system, a crude oil fuel park; a cooling system with radiator, a gas exhaust circuit with a height of 42 m and a control room fire protection with 750 m3 water tank.
The CEO of the Istithmar company, EL Arby Baba Ainina, considered that the construction of this thermal power plant reflects the strengthening of Niger's energy independence