Guinea-Bissau has 1 power plant in this atlas, with 18 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Bissau (18 MW, oil; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are oil. Grid operators listed here include EAGB. Renewables supplied 0% 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 Guinea-Bissau
Vertically integrated utilityOne utility does everything
A Turkish power ship and the OMVG interconnector supply Bissau.
GenerationState utility
TransmissionState utility
DistributionState utility
CustomersGovernment-set tariffs
Who regulates
No separate independent regulator is listed: the government or the utility itself sets tariffs and technical rules.
Member of the West African Power Pool, the ECOWAS body building interconnectors and a regional electricity market across West Africa.
What does “Vertically integrated utility” mean?
A single, usually state-owned utility generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Prices are set or approved by the government or a regulator rather than by a market.
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.
Guinea-Bissau 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
Bissau
Languages
Portuguese, Upper Guinea Creole
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 1 records for Guinea-Bissau. 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
1 source record. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 1 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
