APUA is an association of African power utilities that aims to increase electricity access in Africa. It was created in 1970 and has 54 utility members across 43 countries. APUA works to develop Africa's power sector through strategies like establishing regional power pools, training programs, and facilitating large cross-border infrastructure projects. Its goal is a fully interconnected power system across the continent to help address Africa's electricity challenges and unlock its large energy resources and potential for power development.

1. by Eng. Abel Didier TELLA , Director General, APUA
abel.tella@apua-asea.org
www.apua-asea.org

2. 1. What is APUA
2. APUA achievements
3. Focus on African Energy Potentials
4. The status of the African power sector
5. APUA’s cohesive strategy for the development
and integration of the African Power sector
6. Conclusion
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3.  APUA stands for the Association of Power Utilities of
Africa. It is also known in French as ASEA (Association des
Sociétés d’Electricité d’Afrique).
 An international non-profit organisation created in 1970 by
African Power Utilities with its headquaters in Abidjan Côte
d’Ivoire.
 Formerly known as UPDEA (Union of Producers.
Transporters and Distributors of Electric Power in Africa).
 In 2012 after almost 42 years of existence, UPDEA’s
member Utilities decided to implement the
recommendations of a five year Strategic Action Plan
(SAP) in order to :
• rejuvenate the Union
• make it more consistent with the current environment of the
African power sector
• make it more responsive to the aspirations of its member
• new branding the organization with a change of name
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4.  The vision of APUA is to be the primary catalyst of
the access to electricity for all the people of Africa
in the years to come.
 Its mission of APUA is: To bring together African
power utilities and stakeholders towards making
power more accessible, affordable and reliable
for the African people.
 Its core values are :
 Integrity
 Transparency
 Responsibility
 Excellence
 Trust
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5.  APUA has 54 active members in 43 African countries
 APUA is one of the specialized institutions of the African Union Commission
(AUC).
 APUA is a permanent member of the Executive Council of the African Energy
Commission AFREC.
 APUA is a permanent member of the Executive Committee and the Management
Committee of the African Electrotechnical Standardisation Commission (AFSEC)
that it created in 2008 upon request of the AUC
 APUA has a privileged partnership with the African Development Bank, the
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the NEPAD planning
and coordination Agency, etc.
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6.  Creation in 1979 of the IEEC: Interafrican Electrical
Engineers College in Bingerville (Côte d’Ivoire), a high
level school that has trained until 2001 more than 250
Engineers, electro mechanical, bilingual.
 Interconnection studies for west and central African
countries.
 Promotion of a number of partnerships with international
energy and power organizations
 Creation of African Regional Power Pools (namely PEAC
and EAPP) in interaction with the Regional Economic
Communities and the
 setting up of the Consultative Forum of the African
Regional Power Pools in coordination with AFREC and
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7.  To address the performance issues faced by the African
power utilities due to the lack of human resources in
quality and quantity, APUA has launched the idea of
creating the African Network of Centres of Excellence in
Electricity(ANCEE)
 4 centres have been recongnized as centres of excellence:
Eskom Academedy of Learning (Eskom, South Africa),
Kafue Gorge Regional Training Centre (ZESCO, Zambia),
Institut de Formation en Electricité et Gaz (SONELGAZ,
Algeria) Centre des Sciences et Techniques de l’Electricité
(ONEE, Morocco).
 Components of the project:
• Establishing of the network and its executive and governance bodies
• Network operation
• Training for skills in the electricity sector (plan to training 9700 persons of which
30% ladies, 30% courses related to Renewable energies and provision for scolarships
for fragile countries)
• Promoting new Centers of Excellence: 4 more centers are expected before the end of
the project period 2015-2018
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Comprises 54 sovereign states
About 30.2 Km², greater than China,
USA, Europe, India and Japan
combined
World 2nd most populous continent
with population dobling to 2 billion in
2050
African economies poised to grow
on average of 6% for the last decade

9. Africa is the continent of paradoxes as an energy
giant but an electric dwarf :
 10% of global hydropower potential of which
only 8% are operated
 8% of world oil reserves (36% in Libya and
28% in Nigeria)
 7% of natural gas reserves (35% in Nigeria
and 31% in Algeria)
 17% of uranium reserves
 29% of the wind potential
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10.  15% of the geothermal potential
 4% of coal reserves (92% in Southern Africa)
 the world's largest solar potential and
significant reserves of biomass with 60% of
uncultivated arable land in the world
And every year, new natural resources deposits
are being found.
Unfortunately this great potential is not converted
into available electrical energy to meet the huge
demand.
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11. The average electrification rate for all Africa is
43% against 70 to 100% in major developing
countries. In sub-Saharan : barely exceeds 32%.
For urban areas the rate is 72% for Africa
Per region:
NORTH AFRICA : 98 to 99.4%
SOUTHERN AFRICA : 8-78%
WEST AFRICA : 5 to 76%
CENTRAL AFRICA : 3-45%
EASTERN AFRICA : 5 to 40%
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12. REGION (*) Number of countries (**) Interconnected
countries (***)
Rate of
Integration
1 NORTHERN AFRICA 5 5 100%
2 WESTERN AFRICA 15 (1) 10 67%
3 CENTRAL AFRICA 9 (2) 4 44%
4 SOUTHERN AFRICA 10 (3) 8 80%
5 EASTERN AFRICA 9 6 66%
TOTAL 48 30 71%
(*) Geographical division, not political
(**) Not including the islands
(***) Not including medium voltage lines
(1) Including Mauritania
(2) Including Rwanda and Burundii
(3) Including Angola
(4) Not including the islands
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13. MOROCCO
ALGERIA
TUNISIA
LIBYA
EGYPT
4
0
0
k
V
4
0
0
k
V
90 kV
150 kV
225 kV
4
0
0
k
V
2
2
5
k
V
225 kV
225 kV
Projet
Existant

14. MAURITANIE
SENEGAL
GAMBIE
GUINEE
BISSAU
MALI
GUINEE
SIERRA
LEONE
COTE
D’IVOIRE
BURKINA FASO
GHANA
TOGO
LIBERIA
BENIN
NIGERIA
NIGER
330Kv
225kV
225 kV
225 kV
330 kV
225kV
161Kv
161kV
330kV
Projet
Existant
225 kV
225 kV
MAURITANIA
SENEGAL
THE
GAMBIA
GUINEA
BISSAU
MALI
GUINEA
SIERRA
LEONE
COTE
D’IVOIRE
BURKINA FASO
GHANA
TOGO
LIBERIA
BENIN
330Kv
225kV
225 kV
225 kV
330 kV
225kV
161Kv
161kV
330kV
Projet
Exist
225 kV
225 kV
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15. SOUDAN
OUGANDA KENYA
TANZANIA
ETHIOPIA
245 kV
132 kV
400 kV
ZAMBIA
SAPP
330 kV
ERYTHREA
DJIBOUTI
SOMALIA
Projet
Existant

16. WAPP
NIGERIA
CAMEROON
GABON
CABINDA
(ANGOLA)
CONGO
BRAZZA
CENTRAFRIC
(CAR)
CHAD
ZAMBIA
DR
CONGO
RWANDA
BURUNDI
132 kV
400 Kv/ 330kV
EQUATORIAL
GUINEA
400kV/330 kV
400kV/330 kV
132 kV
220 kV
220 kV
Projet
Existant
400 Kv/ 330kV

17. ANGOLA
NAMIBIA BOTSWANA
R.S.A
DRC
400 kV
220 kV
ZIMBABWE
ZAMBIA
MOZAMBIQUE
Projet
Existant
LESOTHO
SWAZILAND
MALAWI
TANZANIA
400 kV
132 kV
275kV
220 kV
330kV
220 kV
400 kV
330 kV
132 kV
275 kV
535 kV Direct Courant
400 kV
400 kV
400 kV

18.  Energy resources not equally spread throughout the
continent,
 APUA was initially mandated to facilitate , promote:
 the realization of interconnection of national
Electricity networks within neighbor countries in
West and Central Africa
 the setting up of regional Power pools where
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19. APUA initiated an MOU signed with all existing
Power Pools and the AFREC in Lusaka in 2005,
and in conformity with the Declaration on «the
common vision and strategic framework for a
continental policy of the African electricity
sector »
The forum of the African regional power pools
was set with APUA as coordinator
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20. APUA was unanimously backed by the sector’s
stakeholders to facilitate the harmonization and
facilitation of trans border interconnector projects,
regional power master plans and exchanges of data
and experiences.
The final objective being an all African interconnected
power system to allow load flow from North to
South, from Central to West and East of the
Continent, etc.
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21. PIDA
To redress areas of disabilities and accelerate the
development of energy infrastructure in Africa =>
Interaction AU, NEPAD Agency and AfDB) to
formulate the Programme for Infrastructure
Development in Africa (PIDA): development
planning of transport infrastructure, Energy,
Information and communication and trans
boundary waters until 2040.
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22. PIDA
For energy, it aims to provide access to electricity
to at least 60% of the African population by that
date, which implies an annual growth of 6.2% in
the energy sector and an annual investment of
40.5 billion US dollars.
Today, the AUC is clamming the harmonization
and federation of all initiatives on the continent
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24. APUA’s cohesive strategy for the development
and cooperation among Power Pools through
the coordination of the Forum facilitates
increasing consultations among stakeholders.
 SECTOR REFORM
Regional regulatory bodies should give effect to
the private sector and open guaranteed equal
opportunities.
States should create an enabling environment for
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25.  FINANCING THE SECTOR
mobilization of funding conditionalities from
traditional donors and associated procedures
should be relaxed to reflect the urgent concerns of
regional market development.
Bilateral and sovereign pension funds are been
explored. Among other launched iniatives, the
President of AfDB came out with the new deal
for energy in Africa concept and there is great
hope to have noticeable progress toward
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26. MERCI
THANK YOU
GRACIAS
OBRIGADO
спасибо
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