Saturday, September 27, 2008

Electricity Chad

This is one country with the potential to be self sufficient if those running the government choose to.
Chad has a large reserve of oil, which is slowly being tapped, but lack of refinery means the oil has to be exported unrefined through the joint pipeline with Cameroon, and finished products IMPORTED; folks this sound like Africa in the colonial days when raw material go to the masters in Europe at bargain basement prices and then finished products return at exorbitant prices.
Maybe I am being a little too harsh on Chad, after all they just started their oil business, and petroleum refineries are not built over night.
With regard to the topic at hand, electricity production is about 96 Megawatts, and just about all of it is consumed (88 Megawatts). With these kinds of numbers, you are tempted to say Chad is meeting her needs when it comes to electricity, wrong! A large segment of the population rely on Biomass, firewood and dried animal manure for energy because the electricity and refined oil products are expensive.
Considering how long Chad has been “Independent”, there should have been more development than what has been done.

Folks, I see more hippos in this environment than cheetahs.

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