ENEO Transformers are "140% Overburdened"

                           Joël Nana Kontchou  /  Eneo M.D

That massive percentage in the headline was provided by the Managing Director of Eneo, Joël Nana Kontchou, who has stated that the electricity network in the country is really bad, and this means the transformers have to work beyond their capacity. According to Business in Cameroon , the M.D made this statement during a visit to Garoua, which has been subjected to significant power cuts (which area of the country is spared from these annoying outages btw?).

Joel Nana Kontchou, the Managing Director of Eneo, the country’s public electricity company in Cameroon, summed up the country’s electricity situation by saying: “We have to cut out the evil at the root.

In order to address this situation which has been on-going for several years, Eneo Managing Director noted that, in 2015, his company will invest 37 billion FCFA, of which, a major portion will be used to renew the electricity network.
We have a degraded network with transformers that are overburdened by 140%, and falling posts,” reported the government daily.
In 2016, the funds to be used for investment will be more since, according to our sources, it will be 65 billion FCFA. This will be used for the implementation of an investment plan totalling 170 billion FCFA for the 2014-2018 as the Managing Director announced in August 2014 during his official appointment to the head of Eneo.