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F2/4 Vasant Vihar,
New Delhi-110 057

Tel : +91 11 26140641/42
Fax : +91 11 26140630

Email :embassy@burkinafasoindia.org

Energy Sector

The government faces a challenge to meet the growing demands for energy services and to improve the services in this sector . It is trying to reduce the cost of energy and to expand the energy services to the rural and sub-urban population. Efforts are also on to introduce alternation fuel alternative In households and reduce the reliance on wood.

The Major Reforms in the Electricity sub sector

1. Opening up of the generation of electricity to the private sector through competitive bidding
2. Liberalization of distribution in the areas that are still without electricity
3. Creating an electricity development fund to accelerate electrification of the country
4. Privatization of SONABEL (Leasing)

Reforms in the Hydrocarbon sub-sector are:

1. Partial disengagement of the state from the National Burkinabè Hydrocarbons Company (SONABHY) by opening its capital to the private sector;
2. Liberalization of the distribution of hydrocarbons to allow the entry of new "marketers" and the establishment of stations on the market .

Major Electricity Projects are :

1. Interconnection with Ivory Coast	50 billion underway
2. Interconnection with Ghana in 2012	20 billion
3. Interconnection with Nigeria in 2016	52 billion
4. Interconnection with Mali in 2017	42 billion
5. Development of a target network to expedite rural electrification 2008 to 2010	29 billion
6. Priority program of rural electrification 2008 to 2015	35 billion
7. Implementation of Ouagadougou master plan 2007 to 2010	26 billion

Major hydrocarbon projects are:

1.Construction of a pipeline between Ghana and Burkina Faso (Bolgatenga-Bingo)	18 billion
2.Construction of a new depot at Bobo -Dioulasso	15 billion

Major projects of Renewable Energy

1.Setting up an assembly unit of photovoltaic modules;
2.Completion of hydroelectric dam at Noumbiel
3.Pre-electrification of villages by solar photovoltaic systems

Latest News

The Embassy takes great pleasure in announcing the arrival of H.E. Mr. Idriss Raoua OUEDRAOGO Ambassador-Designate of Burkina Faso to India. H. E. Mr. OUEDRAOGO arrived in New Delhi on December 2, 2011 and has assumed charge of the Mission.

The entire staff of the Embassy wishes him a very warm welcome and success in his mission.

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 H.E. Mr. Idriss Raoua OUEDRAOGO presented his credentials to H.E. Mrs. Pratibha Patil, the Honourable President of the Republic of India, as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso to India.

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