Due to fluctuating water levels and to poor maintenance of the plant and transmission network it often delivers far less than its nominal 74 megawatts.

[6] In April 2002 a mutiny by 21 government troops demanding payment of their salaries led to power being cut from the Moukoukoulou dam.

[13] A 2005 OECD report noted that during the civil war the hydroelectric plants had been badly damaged, and there were severe shortages of water and electricity.

[15] In May 2007 President Denis Sassou Nguesso visited Moukoukoulou, where all four turbine generators had been rehabilitated at a cost of US$12 million, although work on the transformers was still not complete.

[6] The rehabilitation work was carried out by Chinese technicians with funding of 6 billion CFA francs from the Congolese government.

[7] In 2017 the SNE president Eugène Ondzambe Ngoyi asked the government to fund a general overhaul of the equipment at Moukoukoulou.

[16] On 29 July 2018 the SNE was dissolved and its assets and staff were transferred to the new limited company Energie Electrique du Congo (E2C).

[17] In October 2018 the Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics invited expressions of interest from private companies to rehabilitate, modernize and operate the Moukoukoulou hydroelectric power station.