Madagascar was . listed as one of the five countries with the highest electricity costs in the world
Author: underground on the Web site of the CEC
November 30 reported that according to a study published recently by the World Bank, Madagascar is one of the five countries with the highest electricity costs in the world, followed by Chad, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Uganda. According to the report, over the past 20 years, the production of electricity in these countries have been in a stagnant state, far from be able to meet domestic needs, . while electricity prices rise constantly.
Madagascar, the high cost of electricity is hampering industrial development, one of the elements. Means that industrial electricity costs are two neighbours in Madagascar, Mauritius and South Africa. Worse, even if electricity prices for high water and electricity companies, State are far from enough to meet the company demand of industrial production. Recurrent blackouts forced companies often use emergency generators to maintain production, which increased the burden of enterprises. It is understood that the generator of emergency to produce 1 unit costs approximately US $0.48.
according to the report of the World Bank, Africa national electricity cost is much higher than the rest of the world. Only one-fifth per cent of the population in Africa South of the Sahara region to make electricity, which corresponds to half of the population in Asia, the region of Latin America for a population of four-fifths. Exclusion of South Africa, South of the regions of the Sahara by energy consumption annual per capita of only 124 degrees equivalent to maintain a light bulbs burn 6 hours per person per day. According to the analysis by the World Bank, in order to meet the demand, the area should be at least one year to increase the capacity of 7,000 megawatts power generation, but in recent years, the area added generation capacity of only about 1000 megawatts per year.