Background Société Nationale d'Éléctricité du Sénégal (Senelec), Senegal’s national electric utility, has been working to alleviate a supply and demand imbalance caused by structural under capacity and underinvestment in the sector. The lack of maintenance to existing transmission and distribution equipment has resulted in the unreliability of the country’s ageing power plants and overloaded distribution networks. These factors led to power

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