# Somalia Minister Announces Plan to Halve Imported Fuel for Power

> Mustaqbal Media reported on 2025-10-15 that Somalia's energy minister announced a plan to halve imported fuel for electricity within three years using solar.

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 30 September 2026
- Format: News story (reported from one named public source)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Infrastructure and Services
- Tags: utilities, roads
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/somalia-minister-plan-halve-imported-fuel-power

## Key points

- On 2025-10-15 Mustaqbal Media reported that Somalia's Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Abdullahi Bidhaan Warsame, announced a plan to cut dependence on imported fuel for electricity generation by half within the next three years, replacing it with solar energy.
- No funding source, budget figure, tender, contract or implementing company is reported, and no baseline for current imported-fuel dependence is given, so the target cannot be measured from the reporting.
- Nothing establishes whether works, procurement or financing have begun since the report was published.

On 15 October 2025, Mustaqbal Media reported that Somalia's Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Abdullahi Bidhaan Warsame, announced a plan to cut the country's dependence on imported fuel for electricity generation by half within the next three years, replacing it with solar energy.

The federal Ministry of Energy and Water Resources is the acting party in that announcement. The reported goal is a halving of imported-fuel dependence in electricity generation; it is not a 50% solar share of generation, and the report does not present it as a measured or verified figure.

What the announcement does not carry is as consequential for anyone pricing Somali power work as what it does.

## What the report does not establish

Mustaqbal Media's report names no funding source, budget figure or financier. It names no contracts, tenders or implementing companies. It gives no start date, no project sites and no installation targets in MW. It provides no baseline for current imported-fuel dependence or current solar generation share, which means the target cannot be measured against the reporting as it stands. It cites no document, policy paper or decree as the basis of the announcement.

It carries no statement from an electricity utility, a regulator, an independent expert or the private power companies that dominate Somali electricity supply. The report also gives no geographic scope, so no site or area of coverage can be read into it.

Those omissions are the practical ones for developers and lenders. A halving of imported-fuel dependence implies displaced diesel or heavy fuel oil generation, and that implies procurement, grid or mini-grid work and financing. None of those is reported.

> **Note:** The three-year period is a stated target, not a completion date. Nothing in the reporting establishes that any works, procurement or financing has begun since 2025-10-15.

## What happens next

Mustaqbal Media's report does not say what follows the announcement, and nothing establishes whether any financing, tender or construction activity has begun in the period since. Until a funding source, a tender notice or an implementing entity is named, the plan remains an announced intention attributed to the Minister, not a programme under way.

## Questions

### What did Somalia's energy minister announce?

Mustaqbal Media reported on 2025-10-15 that Somalia's Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Abdullahi Bidhaan Warsame, announced a plan to cut dependence on imported fuel for electricity generation by half within the next three years, replacing it with solar energy.

### Is the plan funded or contracted?

No. The reporting states no funding source, budget figure or financier, and names no contracts, tenders or implementing companies.

### What is Somalia's current solar or imported-fuel share of electricity?

The reporting gives no baseline for current imported-fuel dependence or current solar generation share, so the target cannot be measured from it.

## Sources

- [Somalia targets 50% Solar Power generation as Energy sector transformation accelerates](https://mustaqbalmedia.net/en/somalia-targets-50-solar-power-generation-as-energy-sector-transformation-accelerates/) — Mustaqbal Media, 2025-10-15