Africa-Press – Senegal. It is an « urgency » for the Senegalese public authorities to lower the cost of electricity production while taking into account at the same time the commitments made by the State with its multilateral partners in terms of mitigation of the effects of climate change, recalled Tuesday Issa Dione, the chief of staff of the Minister of Petroleum and Renewable Energies.
It is difficult to combine lower electricity production costs with an effective policy to mitigate the effects of climate change, but Senegal will do its utmost, he noted.
Mr. Dione was leading a preparatory meeting for the Energy Sector Development Policy Letter (LPDSE) for the period 2024-2028. On this occasion, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy returned to the LPDSE 2019-2023, which was deemed satisfactory by the stakeholders.
This energy sector development policy letter signed in October 2019 by the supervisory ministry and that of the Economy, Planning and Cooperation made it possible to define the orientations of the country’s energy policy, recalled Issa. Dione.
According to him, with the LPDSE 2024-2028, the public authorities want to create the right conditions for the exploitation of oil and gas resources.
Securing the country’s hydrocarbon supply logistics and distributing electricity sold to consumers at low cost are among the objectives to be achieved with the help of the 2024-2028 development policy letter, it said. -he says.
The ministry wants to ensure « the securing of the supply of sustainable energy to households », clarified Issa Dione. The LPDSE 2019-2023 was implemented in a difficult context, marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, he pointed out.
The health crisis has called into question all forecasts, said Mr. Dione, adding that the Russian-Ukrainian war has impacted Senegal’s energy policy for the period 2019-2023.
« The production of electricity using renewable energies is no longer […] a simple means of reducing greenhouse gases, it is quite simply an advantageous economic choice », underlined Annegret Al- Janabi, Head of Development Cooperation at the German Embassy in Senegal.
« Senegal’s objective of providing access to electricity for all at competitive prices by 2025 is the common thread in identifying the priorities of this policy, » she said. .
Germany is one of Senegal’s partners in energy policy.
Ensuring that all Senegalese have access to electricity no later than 2025 is one of the State’s objectives in this area, the ministry recalled.
« We want universal access to electricity in 2025 to be a reality. The problem arises in rural areas. In the cities, we are at a rate of access to electricity of 96 to 98%, » said Issa Dione.
According to him, for the past twenty years, Senegal’s energy policy has been based on five-year plans.
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