Cameroon: Renewable Energy – Gov’t Partners with Forbes Energy to Increase Supply

The agreement to establish the viability studies on potential project written yesterday. Yesterday the government of Cameroon in Yaounde in Cameroon 25 January, a subsidiary has reached agreement on a U.S. energy company; Forbes Energy in Cameroon by the competent authority may carry out feasibility studies, since the production of electricity products Agriculture, especially cassava.

Bio fuel products could produce methane gas, the form of green energy that is non-polluting, in order to diversify energy sources, which in most cases depends heavily on hydropower.

An agreement was signed at the Hilton Hotel in Yaounde between government, represented by the Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Michael Forbes Ngako Tomdio and Energy in Cameroon, represented by its CEO, Jean Narcisse Eyete Ela. According to the technical project for the project is expected to produce 19.2 MW of bio-energy, 600,000 tons and 150,000 tons of cassava starch per year.

This is in line with its roadmap, which is to invest in agriculture through the production of cassava and various other agricultural products from which the organic fuel is derived.

Through this project, Forbes Energy Cameroon’s financial partners, “Groupe Financing Consulting Ltd,” is proposing to develop an agro-industrial pool in Dja and Lobo Division in the South Region in which it could set up a 20,000 hectare cassava farm and four industrial complexes to produce starch, bio-ethanol and electricity. Over 3,500 direct jobs are expected to be created; all, at the cost of FCFA 59 billion.

Speaking at yesterday’s ceremony, Mr Ngako Tomdio said the project could offer the country the opportunity to diversify its energy sources. “Today in Cameroon, we produce energy from water and we will soon be producing energy from gas. We are having experiments with solar and wind energy and this time, we are going to have practical experience with bio fuel.”

As Jean Narcisse Eyete Ela, Forbes, Chief Investment Officer, Afa’a Nkama, seemed happy that the project could change as the country’s energy sector, pledging to leave anything to chance, delivers the goods.