A prolonged financial dispute between the Government of Sierra Leone and Karpowership has severely reduced electricity supply to Freetown, contributing to ongoing blackouts across the capital and intensifying...
Residents across Freetown are enduring worsening electricity shortages as power generation from Karpowership remains significantly below contracted levels while the country’s main hydroelectric facility...
The Government of Sierra Leone has provided its latest update on electricity distribution across the country, outlining progress in expanding access while acknowledging persistent challenges affecting...
Minister of Energy, Cyril Arnold Grant has revealed that Sierra Leone’s energy sector is currently grappling with a staggering debt burden of nearly $100 million. During a recent appearance on AYV’s...
Karpowership, a global leader in power generation, has handed over a fully renovated building to the Variety Children and Family Services Orphanage in Kingtom, Sierra Leone, reinforcing its commitment...
The government of Sierra Leone is working toward generating 52 megawatts of internal electricity by June 2026, aiming to reduce the country’s heavy reliance on costly emergency power sources. This was...
The Sierra Leonean government, through its Ministries of Finance and Energy and the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA), yesterday signed a one-year extension to its power supply contract...
In 2016, a team from the World Bank advised the Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Energy that, the best solution to Sierra Leone’s energy crisis was to dismantle the entire energy infrastructure...
The Energy Sector Lead, Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, has in a press conference on Friday 13th June, 2025, confirmed that the Karpowership has been shutdown and is currently providing only 6 megawatts (MW)...
Sierra Leone's energy sector has successfully surpassed its power supply target for Freetown, delivering over 56 megawatts (MW) of electricity as of 6:00 AM today, despite a significant reduction in output...
