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WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.<br />

Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18<br />

ESIA Report Page 186<br />

25.3.2 Existing Power Market<br />

25.3.2.1 Institutional Set-up<br />

By the end of the civil war in 2003, the power sector had been seriously damaged. The<br />

reminder was destroyed by looting until 2005. The new government elected in 2006 has<br />

been working toward the reconstruction of the electricity sector at the urban, rural and<br />

regional levels.<br />

In 2007, a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy and Action Plan were<br />

published by the government of Liberia. In 2009, a National Energy Policy (NEP) was<br />

formulated, which further developed the ideas of the Policy and Action Plan. NEP<br />

defines as principal objective of the national policy the universal access to modern<br />

energy services in an affordable sustainable and environmentally-friendly manner, in<br />

order to foster the economic, political and social development of the country.<br />

By law, the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has the franchise for providing power<br />

to the country. With the help of an emergency program, the operations of LEC were<br />

resumed and basic electricity supply in Monrovia was restored. LEC is managed by a<br />

joint venture between Manitoba Hydro International and Kenyan Power and Light<br />

Corporation on the basis of a five-year Management Contract (MC). MC has started 1 st<br />

July 2010 and ends by 30 June 2015.<br />

25.3.2.2 Current Situation<br />

LEC is currently a very small entity serving approximately 2’500 residential and small<br />

commercial and industrial customers. The installed capacity of LEC amounts to 23 MW<br />

Diesel power. All the generating units are located in or near Monrovia. There is no<br />

generation capacity outside of Monrovia beyond privately-owned generators and<br />

scattered donor-funded pilot projects.<br />

LEC’s electricity production infrastructure consists of four High Speed Diesel (HSD)<br />

generating stations in the areas of Paynesville (2x0.3 MW), Congo Town (2x1.0 MW),<br />

Kru Town (5x1.0 MW) and Bushrod Island (15x1.0 MW) and a number of 22 kV<br />

feeders serving areas around and between the Generating Stations.<br />

A 66 kV sub-transmission line tying all four stations together has been recently<br />

commissioned and all generation is now supplied from Bushrod Island.<br />

25.3.2.3 Electricity Generation<br />

Complete statistics on the amount of energy produced could not be obtained. In the<br />

present situation with only one generating plant, this type of information is anyhow of<br />

limited value.<br />

In the month of February 2012, the maximum demand reached 8.60 MW. In the same<br />

month, 4’235 MWh were produced, while the corresponding figure for the month of<br />

January was 4’509 MWh. A very preliminary computation indicates that in the Fiscal<br />

Year 2011-2011 the amount of energy generated was of the order of 30’000 MWh.

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