Business In Cameroon4 Mar 2022 13:16
Electricity: production deficit, maintenance work and grid saturation plunge Cameroon into darkness
(Business in Cameroon) - A few days ago, Eneo, the public electricity service concessionaire in Cameroon, returned to the rationing of electrical energy in the country. In almost all the main cities of Cameroon, entire neighborhoods are without electricity for hours, or all day. The situation is even more worrying in rural areas, we learn from various sources.
“ The entire electricity system, in its generation, transmission and distribution segments, is experiencing constraints. This leads to an energy deficit which is accentuated by two main factors: the saturation of the transport network; the limitation of production in certain power plants, either for maintenance, fuel supply constraints, or because of low water levels ”, explains the electricity company in a press release dated February 21, 2022.
In detail, we learn from authorized sources, the Memve'ele dam (South region), which until now only delivered about 90 MW out of the 211 MW expected for almost 5 years, saw its production drop by drastically (35 MW) in recent weeks, due to hydrological constraints resulting from the harshness of the dry season. According to forecasts by operators in the electricity sector, this loss of 55 MW cannot be absorbed before mid-March (start of the rainy season), or even the beginning of April 2022.
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At the same time, we learn from sources familiar with the matter, the groups of the Kribi gas power plant, in the South region, only produce around 160 MW of electricity, out of an installed capacity of 216 MW that can be extended. at 330MW. At the origin of the drop in production of approximately 56 MW in this plant controlled by Globeleq Africa, an independent electricity producer controlled by the British investment fund Actis (as is also the company Eneo), are the equipment maintenance work, we learn.
However, how did we come to schedule maintenance work in this critical energy infrastructure at the height of low water, a period characterized by the drop in water levels in the dams, and the corollary of which is the drop in production in the hydroelectric power stations, which are then generally supplemented by thermal and gas power stations?
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