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Guidelines For Implementation Adopted

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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