Open AccessDemography and electrical energy in the economy of large Cameroonian cities
Author(s) -
Abdoulay Mfewou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of social science and economics invention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-6289
DOI - 10.23958/ijssei/vol07-i07/307
Subject(s) - hydroelectricity , urbanization , electricity , context (archaeology) , consumption (sociology) , population , energy consumption , population growth , natural resource economics , development economics , economics , democracy , economy , geography , economic growth , political science , ecology , demography , politics , engineering , sociology , social science , archaeology , electrical engineering , biology , law
This article shows that Cameroon remains the second hydroelectric potential of Africa after the Democratic Republic of Congo. Started in the 1950s and developed in 2001 by the national policy, strategy and action plan for energy efficiency in the electricity sector in Cameroon with the construction of hydroelectric dams and thermal power plants, the result of this policy Slow is the persistence of difficulties in supplying electrical energy, which leads to continuous load shedding on the one hand, and the limits linked to supplies in a context of increasing urbanization (2.5%) on the other. Although the correlation between population growth and energy consumption remains present for economic growth in cities, the rate of GDP is 5.77% and remains constant among other things, from the energy crisis in all cities of the country.