Cameroonians trained at Malagasy on renewable energy

According to the director of studies of the Agency for regulation of the electricity sector (Arsel) in Cameroon, Issiaka Fonfatawouo after the first fair dedicated to investments in the electricity sector (Invest'Elect) organized in Yaounde in March 2015," a study tour is currently underway in Madagascar, to enable participants to experience live the rich experience of this brother country" in the field of renewable energy.

As a reminder, during the Invest'Elect fair, it was learned officially that 13 memoranda of understanding on renewable energy projects to be implemented in Cameroon were signed.

In Madagascar, Cameroon operators will permeate more of a collaborative experience between a public operator and a dozen private operators and hydroelectric mid-station operators. A public-private partnership visibly effective as it allowed "the share of private operators in the production of electrical energy gradually increased in the order of 4% of total production with 34 801 MWh in 2001, reaching 288,586 MWh, or 22% of total production in 2011," reveals a diagnostic report of Madagascar's Ministry of Energy.

It is this experience of promoting private investment in the electricity sector that the Cameroonian government will duplicate, with its array of projects that "the implementation of solar mini-power plants in the medium term 166 locations and 1,000 localities futures,"said Basile Atangana Kouna, the Cameroonian Minister of Energy and Water during the Cabinet meeting of of 30 April 2015.