Scheduled for completion in December this year, the construction of the 225 Kv Yaounde-Abong-Mbang electricity transmission line in Cameroon, which begun back in November 2019 is currently 65 per cent complete.
This is on the basis of documents provided by Kalpa-Taru Power Transmission Ltd (KPTL) and the observation made in the field by Gaston Eloundou Essomba, the central African country’s Minister of Water and Energy, during his recent visit to the projects site.
KPTL, 1 of the largest players firmly established in the global power transmission and infrastructure EPC space, is the company carrying out the Yaounde-Abong-Mbang electricity transmission line construction project which should connect the Eastern region of Cameroon to the South interconnected network.
In detail, the construction of the firewall at the Mampang transformer station (225/90kV) is fully completed, the transformer bench installed, as well as the foundation blocks to accommodate the electromechanical equipment. 160 out of 243 pylons have also been installed and a little over 10 km out of approximately 71 km unrolled.
In addition to allowing the 6000 households targeted by the Yaounde-Abong-Mbang electricity transmission line construction project to have access to electricity, special provisions to facilitate connection conditions have been announced.
According to Gaston Eloundou Essomba, taking into account the high costs of connections which sometimes can cost up to USD 186 “the government of the Central African Republic will pre-finance the costs of the connections for households, which will refund the costs within 5 or 6 years. The repayment will take the form of monthly payments of USD 3 added to their electricity bills.”