Accessing Modern Energy: ECCAS, CEMAC Fine-tune Regional Policy
By Godlove BAINKONG, Cameroon Tribune
Experts began meeting in Yaounde on Tuesday October 14, 2015 ahead of the Minister’s confab on October 17.
High-level energy experts from the ten member countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) are currently seeking ways of federating their efforts to maximize
enormous energy potentials which it has in view of providing the population with modern energy.
Experts began meeting in Yaounde on Tuesday October 14, 2015 ahead of the Minister’s confab on October 17.
High-level energy experts from the ten member countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) are currently seeking ways of federating their efforts to maximize
enormous energy potentials which it has in view of providing the population with modern energy.
They
began meeting in Yaounde yesterday October 14 to finalise a regional
policy code-named, “ECCAS & CEMAC White Paper: Regional policy for
universal access to modern energy services and economic and social
development,” for its eventual endorsement by the Ministers of Energy of
the sub region when they converge on Yaounde next Friday October 17.
The document drafted thanks to an initiative of ECCAS and CEMAC with
technical and financial support of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) has strategies to provide electricity to an additional
63 million people between 2014-2030.
Successive
speakers at the opening ceremony yesterday chaired by the Inspector
General in the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, Ngadeu Molapie
Hugues, said the sub region boasts of one of the best energy potentials
on the continent but owing to ill-adapted policies, access to modern
energy still remains far-fetched. It emerged from discussions that ECCAS
and CEMAC zones alone possess 57 per cent; more than half of Africa’s
hydropower potentials, yet electricity sector remains characterized by
limited installed capacity and interconnections within and between
regions, inadequate access rate and quality of service below
international standards. “This situation is mainly due to the fact that
infrastructures do not respond to the current needs or development of
the potentials of the region,” they agreed.>>>
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