Mauritania-Senegal: Agreement on supply from Banda gas plant

Mauritania has agreed to supply electricity to Senegal from the planned Banda gas-to-power plant. A joint statement issued on 11 September at the end of a visit to Dakar by Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said the two state power companies had reached agreement on a power supply deal. “Mauritania will supply and Senegal will offtake 80MW from March 2015 at cost price in the first phase of the project. This could be increased to 120MW if the technical conditions for transmission of the power permit it. In the second phase of the project, Mauritania will supply up to 250MW to Senegal at cost price.