Africa-Press – Angola. The headquarters of the Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency of Central Africa (CEREEAC) was inaugurated this Friday in the municipality of Viana, in Luanda, by the minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges.
The center is a specialized institution of the Economic Community of Central Africa (ECCAS), whose mission is to ensure policy coordination on renewable energy and energy efficiency and promote an integrated and inclusive market for related products and services in the region.
The infrastructure will provide for the deepening of cooperation relations in the technical and socio-economic area in the field of renewable energy, with the ECCAS States, the increase in the production of electricity from renewable sources, as well as the interconnection of power lines in respective territories.
The cross-border electrification of localities and agglomerations, close cooperation and neighborly relations between member states, through the development of infrastructures that will boost activities are other goals of the institution.
In his opening speech, João Baptista Borges said that the centre’s main challenge will be to supply the region’s population with cheap and reliable energy.
According to the minister, the central region of Africa is very rich from an energy point of view and the energy poverty it faces cannot be justified, hoping that the center will help improve access to electricity and promote the progress of countries in the region.
This center is a specialized institution of the Economic Community of Central Africa (CEEAC), whose mission is to ensure the coordination of the implementation of the ECCAS policy on renewable energies and energy efficiency and to promote the creation of an integrated and inclusive ECCAS market for products and services related.
The center resulted from the meeting of the ministers responsible for energy of the member states of the Economic Community of Central African States, held on June 3, 2021, with one of the objectives being to conclude the feasibility study on the creation of a dedicated structure renewable energies and energy efficiency in Central Africa, then called the Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Central Africa (CEREEAC), which has the support of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development (UNIDO).
The Economic Community of Central African Member States comprises Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe and Chad.
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