WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 316 / 356
In the North African region there are relatively few projects in progress: [A09]
• The Democratic Republic of Congo is planning to develop projects to expand the
Inga hydroelectric facility located on the Congo River. The 2,000-MW Inga II plant
and the 40,000-MW Grand Inga facility would be utilized primarily for power exports.
The combined capacity of these two projects is almost as large as Southern Africa’s
current installed capacity.
• Three firms - EEF (Switzerland), Infra-Consult (Germany) and Medis (Belgium) -
have signed an agreement to rehabilitate the Democratic Republic of Congo’s
Societe Nationale d’Electricité (SNEL) electricity system. The rehabilitation will
include work on generation facilities in Kinshasa, as well as production and
distribution in North and South Kivu provinces.
• Equatorial Guinea is proposing to replace an existing diesel plant on the island of
Bioko with a 6-MW to 8-MW thermal power plant. The station would utilize gas, which
is currently flared, from the Alba field.
SAPP (Southern African Power Pool)
The Southern African Power Pool was founded in 1995 and involve the following countries:
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi,
Lesotho, D.R Congo, Tanzania and Swaziland.
[A11] The SAPP was created with the primary aim to provide reliable and economical
electricity supply to the consumers of each member, consistent with the reasonable
utilisation of natural resources and the effect on the environment. Co-operation in the
electricity sector is not a new phenomenon in the Southern African region. All utilities
participating in SAPP have equal rights and obligations, and have agreed to act in solidarity
without taking advantage of one another. Members have undertaken to share information
and knowledge, be politically neutral, develop common planning and operating criteria and
procedures and to accept wheeling on behalf of other members when this is technically
feasible.
The image below shows the connections in the Southern African Region.