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Electricity production using biomass in Benin was zero, similar to other WAEMU member countries, except for the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso, which accounted for 53.4% and 46.6% of all electricity production (114.5 GWh), using biomass in 2018, respectively.
A study by the literature , on energy generation from biogas in Benin, considered ten municipalities, and showed energy gains at 24.1 GWh/year for the country, with estimated annual benefits at 3 million dollars.
In recent decades, Benin has experienced several energy crises that have forced it to import more electricity from neighboring countries like Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Nigeria, via the West African Power Pool (WAPP), to meet demand for its population. The worst crisis occurred from 2007 to 2013.
Meanwhile, Benin's natural gas production corresponded to 29.8%, and 0.9%, of Togo's (210 GWh), and Ivory Coast's (7025.7 GWh), total generation, respectively. Fig. 15 shows electricity production per energy source per country in 2018 in WAEMU. Fig. 15. Annual Average Generated Electricity (GWh) per source per WAEMU country in 2018.
Fig. 8 shows that Benin is an energy importer, and very vulnerable in terms of its electricity supplies. Since 1990, between 75% and 99% of its electricity supply was imported, and imports grew sharply from 2007 to 2013, given exponential demand and little national production.
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