28th WAPP Donor Coordination Meeting

28th WAPP Donor Coordination Meeting

”STATUS OF DELIVERY OF WAPP PRIORITY PROJECTS”

The WAPP Interconnected System today has 9 ECOWAS Member States electrically linked with reinforced interconnections.

These have been made possible due to:

330 kV West (Nigeria) – Sakete (Benin) Interconnection Project – 70 km

• Construction completed and project operational since 2007
• Was funded by AfDB, BOAD, EBID as well as Gov’ts of Nigeria and Togo/Benin
• WAPP ICC monitoring of line indicates that Interconnection could be saturated by 2018/2019

225 kV Bobo – Ouaga Tranmission Line Project IN BURKINA – 339 km:

• Construction completed and project operational since 2009
• Fully funded by WB, AFD, EIB, Danida, Danish Mixed Credit and Gov’t of Burkina

330 kV Aboadze - Volta Transmission Line Project IN GHANA – 219 km:

• Construction completed and project operational since 2010
• Fully funded by WB , EIB, Kuwaiti Fund and Government of Ghana

225 kV Cote d’Ivoire - Mali Interconnection Project – 234 km:

• Construction completed and project operational since 2012
• Funded by EBID , BOAD and Governments of India, Mali and Cote d’Ivoire
• Sikasso – Bamako segment being implemented by Government of Mali

60 MW Felou Hydropower Project UNDER OMVS:

• Construction completed and project operational since 2013
• Funded fully by WB and EIB together with Gov’ts of Senegal, Mali and Mauritania

240 MW Kaleta Hydropower Project in Guinea:

• Construction completed and project operational since 2015
• Implemented by the Gov’t of Guinea with support from China Exim Bank

COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF POWER SYSTEMS OF MAINLAND ECOWAS MEMBER STATES

The 2016 – 2019 WAPP Business Plan has as primary goal among others to further reinforce the WAPP Interconnected System and achieve a complete integration of the 14 mainland ECOWAS Member States by 2019.