The electricity needs of populations in Cameroon are increasing and are still\nvery inadequate. Companies, public buildings and households are facing frequent\nblackout which constrain development and social well-being. Therefore,\nthe present work tried to forecast the electricity demand in the residential\nsector in Cameroon, in order to contribute significantly to the mastery of\nelectricity consumption and highlight decision-makers in this sector. Six macroeconomics\nparameters covering the period 1994-2014 are used for these\nissues. Stationarity tests within gross domestic product, gross domestic product\nper capita, electricity consumption, population and numbers of subscribers\nand households respectively; reveal that all the series are I (1). Thus, the\nVAR (Vector Autoregressive) model has been retained to forecast the electricity\ndemand until 2020. The cusum test and the cusum of squared test attest\nthe stability of that model with a margin of error of 0.02%. Previsions are\nthen more reliable and show that the electric request will skip from 1721\nGWh in 2014 to more than 2481 GWh in 2020 approximatively, following a\ngrowing yearly rate of 5.36%. In order to reach its emergence, Cameroon ought\nto speed up its production in the domain of hydroelectric and thermal grid in\norder to meet the requirements in electric power in short and long term.
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