(Business in Cameroon) - Aluminium du Cameroun (Alucam), which consumes over 40% of the electricity produced in Cameroon, has accepted to reduce its consumption during peak hours (which will be equivalent to a decline in production), to mitigate the effects of the hydraulic crisis that Cameroon has been traversing for several weeks. This was announced on June 4, 2015 by Eneo Managing Director, Joel Nana Kontchou.

While thanking Alucam for its gesture of solidarity towards other electricity consumers, the Managing Director of Eneo reiterated that the power outages that companies and households have experienced over several weeks now, are the result of the severe hydraulic crisis. The phenomenon, he explained, is apparent in the substantially lower water levels in the nation’s dams.

For example, Ahmadou Bivoung, Director of the Edéa hydroelectric plant attached to the dam, reveals that the flow of water from Sanaga to Edea was 615 m3/s on June 1, 2015, against 1,398 m3/s on June 1, 2014, which is a 50% decrease. “In 23 years of service, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he stated when attributing “this extraordinary event” to “climate change”.