Guinea Prime minister opens WAPP meeting, requires regional electrical energy over nationwide isolation

Prime Minister and Head of Government Amadou Oury Bah has urged WAPP Member States to prioritise regional electrical energy complementarity over nationwide isolation.

He acknowledged this throughout the opening of the twenty first session of the West African Power Pool General Assembly in Conakry.

The Prime Minister, representing President Mamadi Doumbouya, conveyed the President’s greetings to all delegations, executives, unbiased energy producers and technical companions.

He known as on Member States to construct a real West African power neighborhood based mostly on shared requirements and efficiency.

The Prime Minister described power as the muse of a nation, a matter of sovereignty, competitiveness, social progress and stability, and pointed to the historic interconnection of the fifteen international locations of the sub-region as proof of what collective motion can obtain.

He reaffirmed Guinea’s dedication to regional integration and set out Guinea’s power ambition. He cited the strategic significance of the Kaleta and Souapiti hydropower dams, and future initiatives together with Koukoutamba, Sambangou and Amaria, positioning Guinea to turn out to be a regional electrical energy lung capable of provide the sub-region and anchor West African power solidarity.

“The Republic of Guinea, under the leadership of His Excellency the President of the Republic, reaffirms its readiness to support this collective ambition and to contribute actively to the development of a more integrated, efficient, and united West African energy space,” he stated.

Addressing the Assembly, the Minister of Energy, Laye Sékou Camara, stated the twenty first session should be a stage of determination and confidence, giving clear pointers, consolidating governance and remodeling commitments into tangible outcomes. He harassed that the vitality of WAPP depends upon the self-discipline of its members, together with compliance with commitments and the common settlement of statutory contributions, which he described because the foundations of its autonomy, credibility and effectiveness.

He stated the strengthening of nationwide entry and regional exchanges complement one another reasonably than oppose one another and famous that put in capability shouldn’t be confused with functionality or with the flexibility to move it to the patron, and described interconnection as mutual insurance coverage between States, recalling that Guinea itself benefited from Senegal’s power assist after the hearth on the Coronthie depot in December 2023.

He linked the regional ambition to Guinea’s Simandou 2040 programme and the target of common entry to electrical energy, and known as for credible liquidity assist mechanisms, revered frequent guidelines, strengthened institutional capacities and higher participation of girls within the sector’s professions and choices.

Also talking on the event, the Chairman of the WAPP Executive Board, Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz, knowledgeable that the second part of the regional electrical energy market, will likely be launched in early 2027.

This, he famous will introduce competitors via a day-ahead market, the place the value of electrical energy traded between international locations will likely be decided by provide and demand inside an organised, clear and non-discriminatory framework.

“This is not merely a technical development, it represents a fundamental step forward,” he stated, noting that 20 years of funding in transmission traces, frequent guidelines and establishments should now translate right into a market that works in observe.

According to him, the transition would require market self-discipline, with guidelines understood and utilized by all, dependable knowledge exchanged in actual time, rigorous metering, reliable settlement preparations, and congestion and threat administration commensurate with traded volumes.

Abdulaziz acknowledged that the continued institutional reform will set up an unbiased system and market operator, separating system operation from market operation to make sure equity in decision-making and protect the method from undue exterior affect.

He harassed that the transition should be managed methodically, with out disruption and with out weakening the operational continuity ensured by the Information and Coordination Centre.

He added that no market can thrive with out belief, and belief rests on the monetary safety of transactions, which is the aim of the Liquidity Enhancement Revolving Fund at present below examine and structuring.

“Statutory contributions are not an administrative formality; they are the foundation of our autonomy and our capacity to act,” he stated, calling on chief executives to deal with cost as a private precedence.

Speaking earlier, the Secretary General of WAPP, Mr. Abdoulaye Dia, highlighted the synchronisation of the electrical energy networks of the fifteen West African international locations as a serious milestone, after they efficiently achieved 4 hours and 5 minutes of synchronisation on 8 November 2025.

He stated the check scheduled for November 2026, concentrating on forty-eight hours of synchronisation, is meant to consolidate that efficiency and put together the circumstances for everlasting synchronisation.

DIA famous that member states and electrical energy firms face rising expectations on high quality of service, safety of provide, competitiveness and entry to electrical energy. In that context, WAPP has a specific accountability “to make interconnection an operational cooperation, a sustainable, structured and credible reality, so that electricity becomes a real lever for economic and social transformation at the regional level.”

He additionally pointed to progress on the regional tariff framework, consolidated by choices adopted in 2026 by the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority, together with the transmission tariff methodology, the tariff calculation process and the market price.

According to him, the session is being held below the theme “Consolidating the regional electricity market as a lever of transformation and resilience for West Africa,” because the regional electrical energy market is vital to serving to West Africa overcome a number of challenges related to energy availability. He thanked Guinea particularly, for its central function in sub-regional power cooperation.

While welcoming the delegate to the convocation, the Director General of the Director General of Electricité de Guinée (EDG), El Hadji Gando Barry, highlighted WAPP members’ shared accountability to supply dependable, accessible, and sustainable electrical energy. He harassed that regional integration helps leverage useful resource complementarities and strengthens solidarity between nationwide programs.

At the tip of the session, seventeen (17) Transmission System Operators from the Pool, signed the Inter-grid Operators Agreement to allow operations via the grid.

Blueprint studies that the twenty first session of the General Assembly of the West African Power Pool (WAPP) was held in Conakry, Guinea.