AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP
NEPAD-INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT PREPARATION FACILITY
Fostering Infrastructure Development in Africa
GHANA-BURKINA
Interconnexion
February (2012)
Bocar Cisse
Senior Financial Analyst, African Development
Bank
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Background
Objectives
Description
Benefits
Status/Contact
Background
• ECOWAS the 15 Member States have determined
that the provision of affordable electricity supply
to consumers and industry can more easily be
achieved by interconnecting the electricity
networks of countries in the region
• To this end, the West African Power Pool (WAPP)
was established in 1999
• The Bolgatanga (Ghana) – Ouagadougou (Burkina
Faso) electricity interconnection is one of WAPPs
priority interconnection projects.
• WAPP Secretariat, on behalf of the VRA of Ghana
and SONABEL of Burkina Faso, is coordinating the
implementation of the 225 kV Bolgatanga (Ghana)
– Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) interconnection
project to permit the exportation of cheaper
power to Burkina Faso from Ghana
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Description
Preparatory
Activities
• update the feasibility study and carry out detailed
engineering designs
• conduct a preliminary Line route survey for 225 kV
transmission interconnection project
• conduct an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
• prepare Tender Documents for the procurement and
installation of the transmission line and related substations
under the project.
• Burkina Faso to have an alternative and diversified source of
energy supply through imports
• providing Ghana the opportunity to export excess capacit
Objectives
• additional link for the WAPP transmission system advancing
their goal of an interconnected network in the ECOWAS
region, which ultimately could result into a fully fledged
electricity market.
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Description
Executing Agencies
• WAPP
• VRA
• SONABEL
Cost
• The total cost is about
US$1.90 million
• The NEPAD-IPPF is
providing US$500,000
of the total cost to
cover the
environmental impact
assessment and the
Audit
Financing
• The studies were
being co-financed by
NEPAD-IPPF, USAID,
AFD-DBSA PPF, VRA
and SONABEL
respectively.
• EIA component of the
program by NEPADIPPF, AFD-DBSA PPF,
VRA and SONABEL,
• the Feasibility Study
Update by USAID,
DBSA and VRA.
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Benefits
Infrastructure Need in Africa (according to PIDA)
• An efficient and safe electricity supply mode to Burkina
Faso
• improved, affordable and sustainable access to energy
for WAPP countries with limited energy resources
• Economic benefits from cost-savings associated with a
significantly reduced utilization of fossil fuels for
powering generating plants in Burkina Faso
• Fiscal benefits accruing to both Ghana and Burkina
Faso governments through increased business and
industrial activities;
• Ensure security of electricity supply for the
interconnected networks in the region in the long-term,
through diversification of supply sources and optimal
utilization of the region’s energy resources
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Benefits
 An efficient and safe electricity supply mode to Burkina Faso
 improved, affordable and sustainable access to energy for WAPP countries
with limited energy resources.
 Economic benefits from cost-savings associated with a significantly reduced
utilization of fossil fuels for powering generating plants in Burkina Faso.
 Fiscal benefits accruing to both Ghana and Burkina Faso governments
through increased business and industrial activities.
 Ensure security of electricity supply for the interconnected networks in the
region in the long-term, through diversification of supply sources and optimal
utilization of the region’s energy resources
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Status
Project being appraised by sector department of the African Development Ban
ONEC
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THANK YOU
MERCI
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Contacts
IBRAHIMA KONATE
Division Manager
ONEC
African Development Bank
Tel : (216) 71 10 362
i.konate@afdb.org