MEDEF International's Sustainable City Task Force organized a business mission to Benin from 04 to 06 December 2023. During this mission, the delegation visited the lake village of Ganvié's electrification works sites, which sites IED is the prime contractor on behalf of the ANPT (National Agency for the Promotion of Heritage and Tourism Development) and the SBEE (Beninese Electric Energy Company).

This visit took place on the afternoon of 06 December 2023. After a general presentation of the project financed by AFD (French Development Agency), the site multi challenges and the progress of the works by IED, RMT-Eiffage company described the specific innovative underwater and aerial technologies deployed within the framework of this project.

The MEDEF delegation then travelled by motorized canoe to some sites where the work has already been achieved, in order to assess the issues represented and the technologies implemented in this lake village.

In consortium with its GME partners, the World Resources Institute and Strathmore University, IED Consult has been selected to update Kenya's National Electrification Strategy.

Currently, access to electricity in Kenya is estimated at 89%. Nevertheless, the connection rate of households remains quite uneven from one region to another, and can remain very low in rural areas.

Using the geospatial planning tool GEOSIM®, as well as an in-depth institutional and financial study, the goal of this World Bank-funded project is to support the Ministry of Energy to define a roadmap for universal access to electricity services in the possible shortest time and at the lowest cost.

IED will be able to draw on the resources and knowledge previously acquired in Kenya through the GMG (Assistance for the Development of Mini-Grids) and SETA (Support for the Development of County Energy Plans) projects to carry out this mission.

As part of its activities and expertise, IED has been asked by SENELEC (Société Nationale d'Electricité du Sénégal) to train its Renewable Energy Department staff in technical and economic analysis of biomass electricity production projects, as well as in dialogue with private developers.

A ten-day training course from October 10 to October 25, 2023, was held by IED at the company's headquarters in Francheville, in the Lyon region.

The training was structured around the following themes:

• Methods for identifying biomass resources (agro-industrial waste, household waste) on the national territory and in the environment of a power plant project.
• Electricity generation technologies (boiler + turbo generator, gasifier, anaerobic digestion) with visits on sites in operation (1 wood cogeneration plant, 1 biogas plant for agro-industrial residues).
• Technical and economic analyses of projects and biomass delivery to the plant.
• Presentation of points of attention for electricity sector authorities to successfully design and implement biomass power generation plans and develop a project with a private sector partner.

The different topics were addressed through theoretical presentations and practical manual exercises. Subsequently, the trainees were able to put into practice their knowledge assimilated at the end of this training, and carry out theoretical exercises on open source tools and economic analysis models made available.

Equipped with this new expertise, these trainees are now equipped to face the biomass power generation projects challenges in Senegal!

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In order to improve the quality of electricity supply and increase the country's access rate and in accordance with the 2021-2026 Action Program of the beninese Governement, the Beninese Electric Energy Company (SBEE) has initiated with the support of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) the SBEE's Electricity Network Modernization and Extension Project: ProMER, to the tune of 30 billion 65 million CFA francs.

As part of this ProMER project, the long-standing collaboration between IED and SBEE continues. The SBEE mandated IED to carry out the pre-detailed design studies and tender documents related to this project.

More specifically, IED will carry out the following activities:

• Collecting data for studies
• Validation missions of APS routes
• Carrying out detailed pre-design studies for the extension and densification of the MV-LV networks, including:
  • 74 HV-LV transformer substations
  • 55 km of MV lines
  • 467 km of LV lines
  • 16,149 connections
• Modernisation of HV-LV networks including:
  • Upgrading of 66 H59 and 23 H61 stations
  • Installation of 126 IACMs, 14 IATs and 220 DHPs
  • Reinforcement of 232 km of MV lines
  • The closure of the HVA network over 28km
  • The construction of (07) seven HVA-HVA distribution substations and the rehabilitation of one substation
  • The change of voltage level to 33 kV for 333km of MV lines
• Preparation of tender documents for the recruitment of companies in charge of the works
• The realization of the Terms of Reference and the Request for Proposal for the recruitment of the consulting engineer in charge of supervising the works