Togo Electricite, a privately owned company, has taken over responsibility of generation and supply of electricity in Togo from the state company Compagnie Energie Electrique du Togo (CEET). The company has an operating concession of twenty years. .
P>Togo Electricite has announced plans to invest 27.5 billion CFA over five years in the power sector. The plans include the rehabilitation and reinforcement of the distribution network, reduction of production costs, decrease of losses and optimization of network quality.
Togo has been a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and stands to benefit from the West African Power Pool (WAPP) agreement that reaffirmed and established the interconnection of the grids of ECOWAS members. Togo grid was to be given interconnection facilities in the first phase of the agreement.
Togo, along with Benin, has been s beneficiary of power integration in the form of the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) and the West African Power Pool (WAPP), which were two major energy projects that were established for the region. The objective of the WAGP is to enable provide Benin, Ghana and Togo access to Nigeria's massive resources of natural gas as fuel for power generation and industrial development.
Owing to the two countries position between Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire and the implementation of the projects, gas will be the primary fuel for much of the electricity generated. With this in mind, Togo has been connected to the power grid of Côte d'Ivoire.
In February 2004 Togo and Benin had entered into an agreement to advance cooperation in building a hydroelectric plant at Adjaralla, on the southern Togo-Benin border.
Nigeria also plans to construct a 330-KV transmission line from Lagos to Benin. Togo would be included in this interconnecting line serving the West African region.
