Nexans has brought electricity to 35 rural communities across Côte d’Ivoire by delivering a turnkey, ready-to-use power infrastructure solution. The project, carried out under the country’s National Rural Electrification Program (PRONER), is part of Nexans’ wider ambition to provide safer, reliable, and connected access to electricity for a better future.
In the past decade, Côte d’Ivoire has made significant progress towards electrification. In 2013, only 34 percent of the population of 25 million had access to electricity. Today, that figure is close to 70 percent. Yet rural electrification remains an issue as over 60 percent of the country’s rural communities still have no electricity supply.
The PRONER project aims to increase rural electrification in Côte d’Ivoire through grid expansion. The plan is to connect all settlements with more than 500 inhabitants this year, and all the rural communities by the end of 2025.
Nexans’ contribution to the project has enabled a significant step forward in providing electricity to thousands of people with public lighting systems and network connections between individual houses and the existing high-voltage power grid. Nexans’ approach has extended well beyond supplying individual components. Instead, it has deployed the NEOGRID® turnkey solution encompassing engineering, supply and installation of the power network and including cables, transformers, poles, junction boxes and circuit-breakers.
To electrify 50 communities, the project will include 400 km of aerial medium-voltage (MV) cables and over 430 km of low-voltage (LV) aerial-bundled cables, as well as the installation of 63 outdoor transformers. The Nexans plant in Abidjan manufactured or supplied all critical equipment.
Original announcement: Nexans
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