Harnessing the energy potentials in
Central Africa was the focus of the
joint extraordinary session of the
Council of Ministers and the Management Committee of the Energy
Pool of the sub-region abbreviated
as PEAC, that held in Yaounde,
Cameroon on June 5, 2017. The
get-together of some eight member
countries of the sub-region and nine
electricity corporations alongside
technical and financial partners
brainstormed on developing the energy sector in the sub-region which
despite its enormous potentials,
produces only 4 per cent of electricity with just 13 per cent electricity
penetration rate.
Thus, discussions on the development of the sector focused on two
broad base projects; Integrators
Priority Projects and the Trans-border Electrification Programmes.
Chaired by Léopold Mboli Fatran,
current President of the PEAC
Council of Ministers, the Steering
Committee gave guidelines to the
Permanent Secretariat of the PEAC
for the operational, concrete and
urgent implementation of projects. For the Integration Priority
Projects, PEAC earmarked projects
such as the Inga Electrical Interconnection Project (DRC), Cabinda
(Angola), Pointe Noire (Congo);
interconnection of electricity grids
in Cameroon and Chad; Chollet
hydroelectric development project
(Congo-Cameroon border) and
associated transmission lines
between Cameroon and Congo
amongst others. For the Trans-border Electrification Progra...
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