While the Senegalese energy sector has for decades been characterized by the dominance of the Ministry of Energy and the state-owned power utility Senelec, reforms of the sector have been carried out with multi-actor involvement and under the strong influence of bi- and multinational institutions.
The potentials have already been exploited with large-scale projects via Independent Power Producers (IPPs), with the first solar parks commissioned in 2016 and 2017 . It is also important to note that oil and gas fields were first discovered in Senegal in 2014. Their exploitation was to begin in 2020.
These actors from firms, agencies and finance institutions are proactively driving liberalization of the electricity market to enable investments in large-scale projects, leading to new regulations in Senegal (see Fig. 2).
In short, it is clear that universal electricity access remains a challenge for Senegal.
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