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Côte dIvoire will acquire a new 390-megawatt power plant to meet growing demand for electricity, the new Ivorian Minister of Energy, Abdourahmane Cissé , announced in Abidjan on 19 December .
Mr. Cissé, who spoke about "a growing demand for energy" , signed a construction agreement with the director general of the Ivorian electricity production company ( Ciprel , private), Bernard Kouassi NGuessan , in the part of a public-private partnership.
This combined cycle thermal power plant (composed of gas and steam turbines) will be built by Ciprel, a subsidiary of the French-African group Eranove , a producer and distributor of electricity and drinking water in West Africa, for a overall cost of 248 billion CFA francs (378 million euros). Work will start in 2019 and be completed by the end of 2020, with the start being expected in 2021.
Ciprel has increased in a decade its capacity of 556 MW, or nearly a quarter of Ivorian production, becoming the "largest private electricity producer in the country . " 75% of Côte dIvoires electricity supply is supplied by thermal energy ( Ciprel plants -40%, Azito -35%), the remainder going to hydroelectric dams.
Holder of a distribution monopoly, the Ivorian Electricity Company ( CIE ), privatized in 1990 and Eranove property, supplies power to 1.9 million subscribers Ivorian, and exports to Ghana , on Togo , the Benin , Burkina Faso , Liberia and Mali.
The CIE has multiplied by five in thirty years the number of its customers, to reach 1.9 million including 500 000 prepayment subscribers. However, it had to face a sling of customers, the increase in its rates having generated social conflicts in 2016.
The leading economic power in Francophone West Africa, Côte dIvoire has been engaged in a process of reconstruction since the end of the 2010-2011 crisis. In particular, it must overcome the shortcomings of its power generation network to consolidate its recovery.
The government is counting on a program to develop its network and aims to reach the 4,000 MW installed in 2020, then 6,600 MW in 2030. |
