WAPP Coastal Backbone

The ongoing development of key generation projects in Ghana and the rehabilitation of the Buyo hydro power plant in Ivory Coast in addition to the implementation of the WAPP Emergency Power Supply Security Plan with a 400 MW generation programme in Ghana and other generation projects in Benin and Togo, will permit the further exchange of low cost power between Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria.  The existing link will however be a bottleneck once these various new generation capacities are up and running and the construction of a new power transmission line becomes indispensable.  Consequently, and in line with the goal of the WAPP to foster power exchange among the countries in the West African sub-region and to permit access to economic energy resources to all member states of the ECOWAS, it is planned to build 300 km of high voltage transmission lines from the Ivory Coast to Ghana including two new high voltage substations to reinforce the existing Ivory Coast to Ghana interconnection.   

In preparation of this project, a Grant was made available to the WAPP for a project preparation package of three components:

(i) the technical, economic and financial feasibility study, as well as the preparation of functional specifications and bidding documents;

(ii) the line route study, the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, the Resettlement Action Plan and the Environmental and Social Management Plan for the project; and

(iii) an audit of the above two contracts.