In Côte d’Ivoire, 715,759 megawatt-hours (Mwh) of energy are wasted per year in households, or $ 103 million and 813,691 Mwh in shops and services equivalent to $ 104 million, according to Emmanuel Yéo, the CEO of the Lynas company specializing in the intelligent management of energy movements and energy saving. Which, he says, gives a total of 1,529,450 Mwh / year, or a loss of 207 million dollars per year, more than enough to fill the current energy deficit in the country.
The official was speaking this Thursday, May 20, in Abidjan, on the occasion of “the leaders’ speech”, a forum of the communication agency Sephira. For him, people must use energy intelligently to avoid the deficit, especially in a context of declining electricity supply.
Indeed, he believes, there is a lot of waste of electricity and demand is increasing abnormally. “The electricity situation we are experiencing is not too alarming. There are solutions that exist. Electric power is difficult to conserve. It should be consumed immediately. Any instantaneous surplus must be sold, because demand must equal production, ”explains this entrepreneur.
Several times awarded the Excellence Award for SMEs, ECOWAS Innovation Award medalist for its regional energy solution and at the Abidjan International Innovation Fair, Emmanuel Yéo experimented with a smart electrical box. “The adoption of this technology in three benchmark Ivorian administrative buildings has made it possible to achieve an annual saving of 5,122,710 Kwh, that is to say a gain of more than 320 million FCFA with an additional power of 215 W that can electrify more than 12 localities. “.
The country has been experiencing a deficit for several weeks, forcing the government to reduce the export of electricity, from 200MW to 50MW. Just like the Ivorian Electricity Company to rotate distribution.
On May 6, 2021, the minister in charge indicated that the cuts observed were due to a failure at the Azito thermal power plant (southwest of Abidjan) which led the actors to use hydroelectric energy. Resulting in a drop in the water flow of the dams supported by the strong dry season.
