Requests for electricity supply15 Sep 2021 06:09
Cameroonian industrial firms that require 340MW have to wait until 2023 – Eneo
Jul 26, 2021
While more than 65% of needs are expressed for the period 2021-2022, electrician Eneo indicates that “the production offer will be diversified and more competitive” only by 2023. Many of the projects that underpin this additional demand for electricity could be postponed.
Requests for electricity supply submitted to Eneo, the exclusive distributor of electricity in Cameroon, show that industrial companies need 340 MW of additional power in the short term to develop their activities. The information was given by the electrician during a meeting with the employers held in Douala on July 22.
According to Eneo, 65% of this request is made by 15 companies. These are Prometal IV, Sky Hotel, SAD Bonapriso, GeoRessource, EverWell, CFAO Retail, Cemtech, Prometal, Novia, Zhenglong, Bocom, SAD Japoma, Cimencam, Mira 1&2 and Sosucam. The most demanding sectors are agri-food, cement, real estate and services.
More than 42% of this demand (144 MW) comes from Douala and its surroundings (Bomono, Bekoko, Dibamba, Logbaba and Mudeka) against 47 MW for Yaoundé and its surroundings (Mbandjock, Mbankomo, Nkoabang…). In Kribi and its surroundings, the needs are estimated at 108 MW. They are 42 MW (2 MW are already available) in the Far North.
With the exception of the Memve’ele hydroelectric power plant, all of whose electricity produced should be available from the end of 2021 (211WM of installed capacity, but whose low flow of the Ntem does not guarantee total availability), the other production projects are announced on this horizon. “These are the Nachtigal hydroelectric power plant (420MW), the Bekoko gas plant of the 30 MWp solar emergency project being deployed in the RIN and two solar power plant projects in IPP with strong prospects of financial closing at the beginning of 2022,” the electrician lists.
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In addition, the transport problems inherent in these needs will have to be resolved. For example, eight source stations (Besseke, Mudeka, Yaoundé city centre, Kribi, Grand Zambe, Bwang Bakoko, Figuil and Nkoteng) and a new transformer span at the Logbaba substation are to be built. And to date, we have no visibility on the financing of these infrastructures.
https://www.energymixreport.com/cameroonian-industrial-firms-that-require-340mw-have-to-wait-until-2023-eneo/
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