Access to electricity is an urgent challenge due to the African population projected to double to nearly 2.4 billion by 2050.China s Dongfang Electric Corporation is presently undertaking the Aysha Wind Farm Project, the first wind power project in the Somali region, with a generating capacity of 120 MW.
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After nine years of construction, the first unit of the China-built Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Station in Nigeria was put into operation in late March, with the other three units expected to go online by the end of this year. According to its builders, Power Construction Corporation of China and China National Electric Engineering Co. Ltd, .