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ABIDJAN, Feb 17 2016<\/span><\/p>\n Ivory Coast electricity producer CIPREL, a subsidiary of ERANOVE, completed a project on Wednesday to increase its total capacity by 234 megawatts (MW) to a total of 556 MW in a bid to meet fast-growing domestic and regional demand.<\/p>\n The 225 billion CFA franc ($382.15 million) project, which includes a steam and a heat turbine, took over two years to finish and makes CIPREL the country\u2019s biggest independent producer of electricity.<\/p>\n Financing came from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, France\u2019s Proparco and local banks including Bank of Africa, Nsia Bank and Societe Ivorienne de Banque, said CIPREL Managing Director Bernard Kouassi N\u2019Guessan.<\/p>\n \u201cThe strong growth in demand for electricity, estimated at around 10 percent per year, is evidence of the strong economic growth that was have seen,\u201d said Adama Toungara, Ivorian Minister for Oil and Energy.<\/p>\n He said additional capacity installed by 2020 could take the total to 4,000 MW and to 6,000 MW by 2030, though this would require investment of $22 billion. Hydroelectric projects would also add 587 MW by 2020, he said.<\/p>\n Ivory Coast, the world\u2019s top cocoa producer and Francophone West Africa\u2019s economic powerhouse, is a regional power exporter, supplying Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali. It plans also to supply Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. [\/gla_bloc_mise_en_page][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ivory Coast electricity producer CIPREL, a subsidiary of ERANOVE, completed a project on Wednesday to increase its total capacity by 234 megawatts (MW) to a total of 556 MW in a bid to meet fast-growing domestic and regional demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Abidjan, le 17 f\u00e9vrier 2016 - <\/strong>Le Pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, S.E.M. Alassane OUATTARA, a inaugur\u00e9 ce jour, \u00e0 Vridi (Abidjan), la derni\u00e8re phase de l\u2019extension de la centrale thermique de la Compagnie Ivoirienne de Production d\u2019\u00c9lectricit\u00e9 (CIPREL), une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Groupe ERANOVE. Cette c\u00e9r\u00e9monie s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e en pr\u00e9sence \u00e9galement du Premier Ministre, Ministre de l\u2019\u00c9conomie, des Finances et du Budget, S.E.M. Daniel Kablan DUNCAN, du Ministre du P\u00e9trole et de l\u2019\u00c9nergie, M. Adama TOUNGARA, ainsi que d\u2019autres membres du gouvernement. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 not\u00e9 \u00e9galement les pr\u00e9sences du Pr\u00e9sident du Conseil d\u2019Administration du Groupe ERANOVE et Co-Pr\u00e9sident du fonds d\u2019investissement Emerging Capital Partners, M. Vincent LE GUENNOU, du Directeur G\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Groupe ERANOVE et Pr\u00e9sident du Conseil d\u2019Administration de CIPREL, M. Marc ALB\u00c9ROLA, et du Directeur G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de CIPREL, M. Kouassi N\u2019GUESSAN.\r\n\r\nCr\u00e9\u00e9e en 1994 dans le but de contribuer \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre aux besoins \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques croissants de la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, CIPREL est historiquement le premier producteur d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 ind\u00e9pendant (IPP) en Afrique de l\u2019Ouest. Avec l\u2019inauguration de cette extension, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9e par la mise en service d\u2019un cycle combin\u00e9 gaz-vapeur (\u00e9galement baptis\u00e9 CIPREL IV), CIPREL confirme sa position de leader dans la production d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 en C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire avec une capacit\u00e9 install\u00e9e qui est pass\u00e9e de 321 \u00e0 556 m\u00e9gawatts (MW - une \u00e9volution de plus de 70%), soit une production additionnelle d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 de 1 600 gigawatts-heure (GWh) par an. Cela repr\u00e9sente l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 pour un million de personnes suppl\u00e9mentaires.\r\n\r\nCIPREL IV est l\u2019un des principaux projets d\u2019infrastructures de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire de ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Un investissement de 340 millions d\u2019euros (223 milliards de FCFA) a \u00e9t\u00e9 mobilis\u00e9 pour le projet aupr\u00e8s des actionnaires de CIPREL (Groupe ERANOVE, \u00c9tat de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, BOAD), de banques nationales et r\u00e9gionales (avec Oragroup comme arrangeur) et de banques multilat\u00e9rales conduites par International Finance Corporation (IFC, Groupe Banque mondiale). Le projet a mobilis\u00e9 2 500 travailleurs en p\u00e9riode de pointe.\r\n\r\n\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est en vertu \u00e0 la fois du succ\u00e8s des trois premi\u00e8res phases de d\u00e9veloppement de la centrale et du respect scrupuleux de ses engagements envers l\u2019\u00c9tat de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire que CIPREL s\u2019est vue confier, le 20 d\u00e9cembre 2011, une nouvelle extension pour accompagner la relance \u00e9conomique du pays, baptis\u00e9e \" Projet CIPREL IV \". La c\u00e9r\u00e9monie qui nous r\u00e9unit ce jour marque la mise en service totale de ce projet\u00a0\u00bb, explique le Directeur G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de CIPREL, Kouassi N\u2019GUESSAN.\r\n\r\nCIPREL IV repr\u00e9sente \u00e9galement une avanc\u00e9e environnementale, avec la mise en \u0153uvre du cycle combin\u00e9, une technologie innovante et performante. En effet, ce syst\u00e8me permet de produire plus d\u2019\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 sans consommation additionnelle de gaz. Cela induit une optimisation du co\u00fbt de production de l\u2019\u00e9nergie \u00e9lectrique, l\u2019\u00e9conomie des ressources gazi\u00e8res nationales et permet d\u2019\u00e9viter le rejet de 500 000 tonnes de CO2 par an dans l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re.\r\n\r\n\u00ab\u00a0La mise en service dans le calendrier pr\u00e9vu de la phase IV de CIPREL souligne la qualit\u00e9 de nos relations avec le gouvernement de C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire et la solidit\u00e9 de nos capacit\u00e9s industrielles. Nous nous r\u00e9jouissons de pouvoir continuer ce partenariat gagnant-gagnant qui permet \u00e0 la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire de consolider son r\u00f4le de hub \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique r\u00e9gional\u00a0\u00bb, souligne M. Marc ALB\u00c9ROLA, Directeur G\u00e9n\u00e9ral du Groupe ERANOVE, actionnaire majoritaire de CIPREL.\r\n\r\n\u00ab Notre gouvernement pr\u00e9voit de doubler la capacit\u00e9 \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique de la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, actuellement \u00e9valu\u00e9e \u00e0 2 000 MW. Pour y parvenir, nous tablons sur 9 milliards de dollars d\u2019investissements sur les cinq prochaines ann\u00e9es dans le cadre du Plan National de D\u00e9veloppement (PND 2016-2020). Ainsi, nous pourrons d\u00e9velopper notre industrie, accentuer notre comp\u00e9titivit\u00e9 et parvenir \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9mergence, d\u00e9taille le Ministre du P\u00e9trole et de l\u2019\u00c9nergie, M. Adama TOUNGARA. Avec l\u2019augmentation significative de ses capacit\u00e9s, CIPREL est une pi\u00e8ce ma\u00eetresse dans l\u2019atteinte de nos objectifs. \u00bbABIDJAN Feb 17 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast electricity producer CIPREL, a subsidiary of the panafrican industrial group ERANOVE, completed a project on Wednesday to increase its total capacity by 234 megawatts (MW) to a total of 556 MW in a bid to meet fast-growing domestic and regional demand.\r\n\r\nThe 225 billion CFA franc ($382.15 million) project, which includes a steam and a heat turbine, took over two years to finish and makes CIPREL the country's biggest independent producer of electricity.\r\n\r\nFinancing came from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, France's Proparco and local banks including Bank of Africa, Nsia Bank and Societe Ivorienne de Banque, said CIPREL Managing Director Bernard Kouassi N'Guessan.\r\n\r\n\"The strong growth in demand for electricity, estimated at around 10 percent per year, is evidence of the strong economic growth that was have seen,\" said Adama Toungara, Ivorian Minister for Oil and He said additional capacity installed by 2020 could take the total to 4,000 MW and to 6,000 MW by 2030.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,61,63,64],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciprel-en","category-news","category-press-releases","category-subsidiaries","tag-ciprel-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eranove.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIvory Coast\u2019s electricity capacity is now 1,975 MW and the government aims to push it to 4,000 MW by 2020.<\/p>\n