(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian government and financial backers such as the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC) and the African Development Bank (ADB), will invest FCfa 70 billion in the construction of Lom Pangar associated infrastructure, we learn from reliable sources.

Indeed, after the actual dam, Cameroonian authorities are preparing to launch construction work on the plant at the foot of the dam, which will produce 30 MW of electricity intended to supply around 150 villages in the East region. The contract has been awarded to the company China Camc Engineering, favoured over Spanish Elecnor, whose offer was judged to be “non-compliant above all with the technical plan”. The other associated infrastructure of the Lom Pangar dam, whose work should begin shortly is the construction of a high voltage line to carry electricity from the production plant up to Bertoua, as well as the distribution lines over a total distance of 105 Km.

In the month of December 2015, the French industrial group Cegelec, thanks to a consortium comprising its Moroccan and Cameroonian subsidiaries, won a contract worth FCfa 9 billion, for the “design, provision, installation and commissioning of the 90 KV high voltage line” on this project.

BRM