Senegal President Wants City Buildings to Start Generating Own Solar Power

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade asked his Ministry of Urban Development to modify the country’s urban building code to prioritize the use of solar energy, according to an e-mailed statement.

New buildings in cities should generate 60 percent of their energy from solar panels, Wade said in the statement.

Oil-powered plants account for 78 percent of the 549 megawatts generated by the state-owned power utility, Senelec. Frequent blackouts have provoked political demonstrations in the outskirts of the capital, Dakar.

To contact the reporter on this story: Drew Hinshaw in Dakar via Accra at ebowers1@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

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