
Electricity generation began in 1908 when a private company constructed the first power station at Burri al-Daralsa near . The modern system dates from 1925 with the establishment of the Sudan Light and Power Company, an enterprise financed and managed by British entrepreneurs but owned by the Condominium government. This company, acquired in full by the colonial government in 1952, was the precursor—through several name changes and reorganiz. [pdf]
Find relevant data on energy production, total primary energy supply, electricity consumption and CO2 emissions for Sudan on the IEA homepage. Find relevant information for Sudan on energy access (access to electricity, access to clean cooking, renewable energy and energy efficiency) on the Tracking SDG7 homepage.
Energy in Sudan describes energy and electricity production, consumption and imports in Sudan. The chief sources of energy in 2010 were wood and charcoal, hydroelectric power, and oil. Sudan is a net energy exporter. Primary energy use in Sudan was 179 TWh and 4 TWh per million persons in 2008.
As for Ethiopia, Sudan imports electricity at a price of 4.5 cents/kilowatt . In August 2021, the Minister of Energy and Petroleum declared that the Sudanese energy sector needed urgent maintenance and restructuring at a cost of $3 billion, another indicator of the dire financial needs of the sector .
Further, Sudan’s energy sector is currently subsidised by the government. Government subsidies to the sector totalled $667 million in 2019. This represents 13.5% of total government expenditures . Financial sustainability could be achieved by introducing gradual tariff adjustments.
There are three energy regulators for electricity, oil and mining, as follows: Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA), Sudanese Petroleum Cooperation (SPC) and Public Geological Research Authority (PRA), respectively. The National Electricity Corporation (NEC) is the sole generator, transmitter and distributor of electric energy in Sudan.
Most of Sudan’s electricity generation comes from hydropower, and more than half of the Eastern African region’s total oil-based capacity is located in the country. Sudan is also contemplating scaling up projects on solar power in the coming years.

Xlinks, the project developer, was founded in 2018. Xlinks Ltd. was incorporated in March 2019. In September 2021, Xlinks stated that they "have secured with the Moroccan government an area of about 1,500 km [580 square miles] for a combined wind and solar farm in Morocco". By October 2021, Xlinks stated that they have reached agreement with for two 1.8 GW HVDC connections to the in Devon. [pdf]
The Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project will be a new electricity generation facility entirely powered by solar and wind energy combined with a battery storage facility. Located in Morocco’s renewable energy rich region of Guelmim Oued Noun, it will be connected exclusively to Great Britain via 4000km (2485 miles) HVDC sub-sea cables.
The new electricity generation and battery storage facilities will be located in Morocco’s renewable energy-rich region of Guelmim Oued Noun and will be connected exclusively to Great Britain via 3,800km HVDC sub-sea cables. The generation is enough to provide low-cost, clean power to over 7 million British homes from the end of the decade.
The power transmission between Morocco and the UK will take place through onshore and subsea cables. Credit: Xlinks. The power generation facility, comprising a solar and wind farm, is in its development stage on an area of 1,500km² in the Guelmim Oued Noun region of Morocco. Credit: Xlinks.
When domestic renewable energy generation in the United Kingdom drops due to low winds and short periods of sun, the project will harvest the benefits of long hours of sun in Morocco alongside the consistency of its convection Trade Winds, to provide a firm but flexible source of zero-carbon electricity.
The power generation facility, comprising a solar and wind farm, is in its development stage on an area of 1,500km² in the Guelmim Oued Noun region of Morocco. The combined facility will generate 10.5GW of energy, of which 3.6GW is planned to be transmitted to the UK to meet up to 8% of its electricity demand.
The Morocco-UK power project will contribute to the growth of the domestic solar and wind components manufacturing industry in Morocco. It is expected to generate about 10,000 jobs in Morocco during the construction phase, including 2,000 permanent jobs.

The first were installed in 2009, and are not associated with storage. The installed capacity is 13 MW, in particular via the Longoni power plant, inaugurated in 2010. Solar energy is the only renewable energy with significant development potential on the island; the wind potential (22 MW according to a study) would not lead to a significant production because the wind blows only 6 months per year. [pdf]
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