(Business in Cameroon) - During the cabinet meeting in March, the Minister of Water and Energy (Minee), Basile Atangana Kouna, presented the rural electrification master plan (Pder) of Cameroon developed using a participative method based on the strategic orientations of the State.

The Minee pointed out that the rate of electrification presents huge gaps between urban areas (40%) and rural areas (18%), before highlighting that the Pder’s goals are, among other things, to enable the vast majority of the Cameroonian population to have access to the power grid. Moreover, this master plan emphasise renewable resources, to provide electricity to remote areas far from the power grid, and even, promote the development of production sectors.

Divided into four stages, each lasting five years, the Pder plans to have 10,000 towns not yet connected to the power grid be supplied in electricity by 2035. In this regard, 50,000 connections to the power grid per year are planned over a period of 20 years, thus a total of one million connections, for a global cost estimated at FCfa 805 billion.

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