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Friday, November 8, 2013
AES Corp. signed agreements to sell its electric generation and distribution businesses in Cameroon to Actis, a global pan-emerging market investor, for $220 million of net equity proceeds. AES Société Nationale d’Electricité (AES-SONEL), an affiliate of AES, entered the Sub-Saharan country of Cameroon in 2001 and began investing in the country’s electricity sector.
Of the $220 million in proceeds from the sale of the Cameroonian businesses, $180 million will be paid at closing, with the remaining non-contingent $40 million backed by a letter of credit and payable after 24 months.
The transaction is expected to close by Q1 2014.
“We are very proud of what we’ve accomplished during AES’ 12 years in Cameroon,” said Andrew Vesey, Chief Operating Officer of AES. “The company’s overall contribution to the advancement of the country’s power sector has been driven by the AES mission to improve lives and the relentless efforts of the AES-SONEL team. This is a great example of a successful public-private partnership with the government of Cameroon.”
AES-SONEL received the electric power industry’s most prestigious honor, the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) 2013 International Edison Award for its program to renew and expand Cameroon’s electricity infrastructure. AES’ efforts enabled a near doubling of the number of Cameroonian families with access to electricity. AES also constructed two independent power plants (IPP) to provide thermal generation to supplement SONEL’s hydroelectric generation: Dibamba, which was Cameroon’s first IPP, an 86 MW heavy fuel oil-fired plant designed to provide peaking power; and Kribi, a 216 MW gas-fired plant that was put into service in May 2013.
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