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Senegal's Parliament approves electricity sector reform and energy regulator

The National Assembly (Parliament) of Senegal has adopted a bill submitted and defended by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy that reforms the country's electricity sector. The new law introduces the country’s first electricity code, which aims to provide a new regulatory framework for the power sector and integrates regulations related to rural electrification, provisions for independent power producers (IPPs), renewables and energy savings. It aims to transform Senelec, the state-owned integrated power utility, into a holding company and separate its generation, transmission and distribution activities, and to set up an integrated 10-year plan (Plan Intégré à Moindre Coût, PIMC), on which 5-year power generation, renewable development, transmission, distribution and energy efficiency plans would be based.

In addition, the Parliament has approved plans to create a regulatory commission for the energy sector (Commission de régulation du secteur de l’énergie, CRSE), to strengthen regulatory mechanisms and extend them to the oil and gas downstream sector, and to the upstream and midstream gas sector. Senegal aims to start producing oil by 2023.

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