Business In Cameroon30 Nov 2020 21:07
Electrician Eneo will transfer 20 MW from the Ahala power station to the northern part of Cameroon, plagued by power cuts
(Business in Cameroon) - For several weeks, the filling rate of the Lagdo dam, a major infrastructure that provides electricity to the three northern regions of Cameroon, has been only 48%, due to the scarcity of rains. According to officials from Eneo, the company in charge of the production and distribution of electrical energy, it is necessary to go back more than 25 years to find such a low filling rate of the Lagdo dam. Suddenly, power cuts have become the daily lot of populations in the regions of the North, the Far North and Adamaoua.
To compensate for the production deficit of this infrastructure with a production capacity of 72 MW, but which is now struggling to produce 30, the electrician Eneo announces a transfer of 20 MW of thermal capacity to the northern part of Cameroon. Clearly, explains an internal source at the company, this transfer will consist of the partial dismantling of the Ahala plant, in the suburbs of the capital, and the installation of its production equipment in the cities of Garoua (18 MW). and Ngaoundéré (8 MW).
As a reminder, with a production capacity of 60 MW, the Ahala thermal power station is one of four power stations (with Mbalmayo, Bamenda and Ebolowa) set up by the Cameroonian government in the 2010s, as part of the thermal program. emergency (100 MW of thermal), the objective of which was to compensate for the electricity production deficit in the country.
Set up and managed by the British independent producer Aggreko, the Ahala plant was then bought by the State of Cameroon in 2014, after tough negotiations.
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