The company plans to build a 100MW dam on the Bafing River and a 110MW dam on the Sassandra River. Location of the third project is yet to be decided.

Brookstone Partners engineer and strategic director Kamal Abdelhafid was quoted by Reuters as saying: "The two hydroelectric dams will be built in parallel. We expect construction to start around the first quarter of 2016 and to last for about five years."

The investment firm will finance the projects through equity and loans raised loans.

Ivory Coast exports electricity to Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Mali and is also planning to add Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone to its grid, the news agency wrote.

"The hydroelectric potential of the Ivory Coast is very important and the electricity market is one of the fastest growing in Africa," Abdelhafid added.

 

 

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