Veolia’s meter scheme meets resistance in Guinea


Issue 320 - 24 Mar 2016 | 3 minute read

In June 2015, France’s Veolia signed a four-year contract worth €11.3m to manage Electricité de Guinée (EDG). There have been demonstrations against installation of prepaid meters in Kaloum, the business and administrative centre of Conakry, which has 14,000 EDG clients. EDG agents in the Sandervaliah district were chased away by gangs of youths and a protest march was organised. Installation of prepaid meters, supplied by Togolese company Togo Assistance Services, forms part of the donor-funded Electricity Sector Efficiency Improvement Project. Some $15m has already been released for the project, part of which has funded the rehabilitation of about 45km of underground distribution cables in Kaloum, which date back to French colonial rule.

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