2023-07-28 10:14:40
The press group The Economist and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Benin (CCI Benin) jointly organized this Thursday, July 27, 2023, a public conference followed by debate, on the availability of electrical energy in Benin, ex -Dahomey, since its independence to the present day (1960-2023). This brainstorming meeting took place in the large conference room of the “Maison de l’Entreprise”
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“Energy issues in Benin, 63 years after independence: inventory and prospects”, is the general theme around which the panelists, key players in the energy sub-sector and the public have looked at each other. To the concerns of the moderator of the forum (Pesce Hounyo), the panelists provided elements of satisfactory answers to the public present. In her great speech, the Managing Director of ISMAST Energy SARL, Ismène Ahamidé Zounmenou made an optimistic inventory of the energy issue in Benin: “the production of electrical energy in Benin has a bright future ahead of it. We have the solar power plant which is 25 Megawatt. There is the phase 2 solar power plant construction project which will be deployed soon, which will increase this capacity by 25 MGW. We have with MCA-Benin, 50 Megawatts which will be built at the rate of 10 MGW in Bohicon, 15 MGW in Natitingou, 5 MGW in Kandi and 10 MGW in Parakou”. To increase the availability of electrical energy at the level of companies and private companies established in Benin, the President of the Council of Private Investors of Benin (CIPB) came to enlighten the public on the progress noted and the difficulties encountered at the level of production units. industrial. Roland Riboux brought all his expertise while welcoming the efforts made by the Beninese government to make energy available to industries. The president of the Council of Private Investors of Benin gave the necessary orientations by drawing on his rich experience for the effectiveness of energy independence in Benin. For him, the collaboration of the public/private sector is necessary to achieve energy autonomy in the Republic of Benin. The academic Basile Kounouhewa, teacher-researcher at the UAC, has mainly focused on the exploitation of biomass to generate sufficient electrical energy for households. He also noted that the recycling of energy objects is a business opportunity and a source of employment for young people. Cinzio Marcellin Bagri, the representative of the SBEE presented with ease and brilliance the major projects already carried out or in progress. in Benin for energy self-sufficiency. He indicated, not without quantified details to the audience, that the deployment of the energy installations of 100 Megawatts additional to the energy is already effective. “Next year, a special 25 megawatt solar power plant will be built. The power plants of Bohicon, Parakou, Djougou and Natitingou will see the capacities of their electrical energy doubled,” added the SBEE representative. The Director General of the press group “The Economist”, Léonard Dossou explained the interest and the objectives underlying the holding of the meeting on energy in Benin. “This conference, I can assure you, is a great meeting of giving and receiving, the objective of which is to completely address the whole issue of energy here in Benin”. He clarified the issues: “this conference will allow us to examine in order to better understand the whole problem and to propose, after analysis, ways out of our situation of deficit and energy dependence. Also, I would like to inform you that this conference comes as a prelude to a great international mass of energy: The Salon Energie Sud Expo 2024 which will be organized in Cotonou in March 2024 at the Palais des Congrès”.
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