Africa & Middle East / Industrial & mining

Nouadhibou Iron Ore Mine Microgrid

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

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations1
System facts8
Sources reviewed3
Last researched2026-07-19

Nouadhibou Iron Ore Mine Microgrid is catalogued as a industrial & mining system in Africa & Middle East.

Research status
Operational
Historical classification
Industrial
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
20.94252, -17.03623
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 Nouadhibou Iron Ore Mine Microgrid?

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 Wind
4400 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
16000 [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

    Wind Turbine: 16 Vergnet GEV MP-C, 275kW, 32m rotor diameter, 55m hub height [1]

  • General

    Total power: 4.4 MW [1]

  • General

    Vergnet GEV MP Wind Turbines Deliver Energy and Cost Savings for SNIM Iron Mine [1]

  • General

    The facility is powered by a 16 MW diesel plant equipped with 4 diesel gensets, feeding a 5.5 kV grid. [1]

  • General

    Specific wind turbine technology was also required to address the near-shore location, very dry and warm climate, and highly corrosive environment. [1]

  • General

    A Hybrid Approach – Investing in Wind Energy and Vergnet’s Hybrid Wizard® Solution [1]

Provenance

3 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 2020-07-06

  2. [2]
    From Vernet

    vergnet.com · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06

  3. [3]
    Vergnet

    vergnet.com · Archived source · captured 2020-07-06