Niger: Nigelec tenders for prepayment meters

Société Nigerienne d’Electricité (Nigelec) is seeking bids for the supply of electricity prepayment meters and an accompanying sales and management system. Bids are due by 22 January. The tender forms part of wider efforts to improve the utility’s performance and increase supply. Nigelec is expanding its transmission network with funding from the European Union Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund. That project aims to supply 14 additional areas on the outskirts of Niamey with electricity, enabling 45,000 connections; connect three isolated grids to the main networks, enabling the shutdown of three small thermal plants and creating 1,800 connections in 18 villages along the routes of the lines