Benin has 2 power plants in this atlas, with 61 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Akpakpa (41 MW, gas; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are gas and oil. Grid operators listed here include SBEE. Electricity is regulated by ARE. Renewables supplied 4% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Benin
Single buyerOne state buyer, private generators
Imports from Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire plus the Maria Gléta gas plant supply power.
Member of the West African Power Pool, the ECOWAS body building interconnectors and a regional electricity market across West Africa.
What does “Single buyer” mean?
Independent power producers build plants and sell their output under long-term contracts to one designated state buyer, usually the national utility, which runs the grid and sells to consumers.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Benin is in Western Africa. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.
Capital
Porto-Novo
Languages
French
Region
Western Africa
Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 2 records for Benin. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
2 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 2 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
