The government of Cote d’Ivoire has been promoting development focusing on the power sector in rural areas where power generation facilities are vulnerable, with a view to correcting the North-South gap in the country. As a result, the electrification rate (electrified areas) has improved, but transmission and distribution losses and power outages due to lack of transmission, substation, and distribution facilities and the aging of existing facilities remain an issue.
Under these circumstances, the country plays an important role as an electricity supplier in the West Africa Power Pool, a framework for the interstate exchange of electricity among the 14 member countries of the West Africa Power Pool, supplying 21% of the electricity that is exchanged (West Africa Power Pool, 2020).
This cooperation aims to increase transmission capacity to the central and northern regions of Cote d’Ivoire, as well as to neighboring countries Mali and Burkina Faso, by adding transmission lines, building and expanding substations, and improving the power distribution network between Turbo-Cosse-Bouaké in central Cote d’Ivoire, thereby stabilizing power supply to these regions, improving the living environment of the target population, and promoting industrial The project will contribute to the stabilization of electricity supply to these regions, improvement of the living environment of the target residents, and promotion of industrial activities.
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