Multinational - Cameroon and Chad Power Interconnection Project (Chad component)

The present intervention concerns the Cameroon-Chad Power Interconnection Project. It stems from the desire of both countries to optimize the use of their energy resources by integrating their power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure. It will involve the construction of: (i) a 225 kV high-voltage (HV) main transmission line between Ngaoundéré and Maroua (Cameroon) and N’Djamena (Chad); (ii) a 225 kV high-voltage link between Maroua (Cameroon), Bongor, Guelendeng and N’Djamena (Chad); (iii) related high-voltage (HV)/medium-voltage (MV) transformer stations; and (iv) rural electrification distribution networks along transmission line corridors. In total, about 1 024 kilometres of HV transmission lines (786 kilometres in Cameroon and 238 kilometres in Chad) will be constructed and 478 localities along these lines (409 of them in Cameroun and 69 in Chad) electrified. It is one of Central Africa’s priority integration projects. Besides interconnecting the power generation and transmission infrastructure of Cameroon and Chad, thus significantly reducing the production costs of national electricity corporations, the project will, through the electrification of the localities along the interconnection lines, help to increase the electricity access rate in both countries, thus contributing to improving the living conditions of the population and reducing poverty.