Africa & Middle East / Commercial & demonstration

Kiffa Hybrid Microgrid Project

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoveragePartial public record
Named organizations1
System facts5
Sources reviewed2
Last researched2026-07-19

Kiffa Hybrid Microgrid Project is catalogued as a commercial & demonstration system in Africa & Middle East.

Research status
Operational
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
6,300 kW
Coordinates
16.62584, -11.40553
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Kiffa Hybrid Microgrid Project?

1 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Vergnet

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
1300 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
5000 [1]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

No controller or equipment model was found in the reviewed public sources. This is a disclosure gap, not evidence that the project lacks coordinated controls.

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • General

    The project integrates the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a 1.3 MWp solar PV plant along with a 5 MW thermal (LFO/HFO) plant. [1]

  • General

    The new plant will replace the existing power plants in the two towns (diesel generators) and will be the only generating station on Kiffa’s isolated electrical grid. [1]

  • General

    To achieve this innovative project, Vergnet entered a partnership with ABC DIESEL. [1]

Provenance

2 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-02-26

  2. [2]
    Read More From Vergnet

    vergnet.com · Archived source · captured 2021-02-26