Since May 04, 2020, and thanks to a presidential decree, the management of the Memve’ele dam (South) has been completely entrusted to Electricity Developement Corporation, the public enterprise in charge of the national electrical heritage. More than a month after the decision of the Head of State, Theodore Nsangou, the director general of EDC, carried out on Tuesday June 09, 2020, his first working visit to the site where the infrastructure is located.
At the end of the tour, the boss of EDC has drawn up a work plan which, according to him, will make it possible to boost the production capacity of the Memve’ele dam, but also to revitalize the socio-economic support program for the structure and minimize its environmental and social impact.
“One of Théodore Nsangou’s priorities is to increase the current power from 60 to 80MW as quickly as possible.
Another project is the completion of the power evacuation lines from Nyabizan to Nkolkoumou, nearly 300 km. The work already done up to about 20 km from Yaoundé is dragging on because of compensation. A problem that will have to be resolved quickly, as well as the completion of the Ahala and Nkolkoumou transformer stations. The delay in this work blocks the online distribution of electricity from Me’evemle in the ENEO South Integrated Network
Théodore Nsangou also wants to connect the entire Ntem Valley as soon as possible. This department which shelters the dam remains today still out of the circuit. Ambam, Kye-Ossi, Ma’an, Olamze, and other localities are still waiting for electricity from Memve’ele”.
