Sierra Leone has 3 power plants in this atlas, with 126 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Kingtom (53 MW, oil; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are oil and hydro. Grid operators listed here include EDSA. Electricity is regulated by EWRC. Renewables supplied 95.2% 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 Sierra Leone
Single buyerOne state buyer, private generators
Bumbuna hydro, a Turkish power ship and diesel 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.
Sierra Leone 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
Freetown
Languages
English
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 3 records for Sierra Leone. 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
3 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 3 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
