Call to speed up energy transition in Algeria

LGIERS- Algeria must speed up its energy transition to diversify its economy and ensure its long-term energy security, underlined Tuesday participants in a meeting organized by the Business Leaders Forum (FCE).Officials and national and foreign experts who took part in this meeting, organized under the theme “Which energy transitions for Algeria?,” focused on the need to speed up the energy transition process by heading for alternative energies of which Algeria possesses a significant potential like the renewable.

It will allow, in addition to the diversification of the country’s energy mix, encouraging the emergence of new industrial fields, notably the activities relating to the manufacturing and installation of equipment of production of solar and wind generating electricity as part of the implementation of national renewable energy development program.

In this regard, Secretary General of Energy Ministry Fatma Zohra Talantikite affirmed in her speech that Algeria “aims, through this program, to make from the next 20 year the era of renewable energies.”

For his part, FCE’s head Ali Haddad said that renewable energies “stand as the most serious and cleanest alternative.”

In this regard, he affirmed that the employers’ organization that he runs “will support any public policy which will encourage the projects relating to the renewable energies involving new and innovative technologies.”

The energy transition combined with the economic diversification “must encourage the emergence of new industrial fields and offer the economy a lever for growth and job creation,” according to him.

The head of the foundation “Energy for Africa” and former French minister Jean-Louis Borloo, who attended the meeting, emphasized the need that the African continent “makes up for delay in electrification.”