 
Contact Address Details:
Ministry
of Petroleum & Energy
Banjul area office
Greater Banjul area
MOE
Second floor,
Futurelec Building
Bertil Harding Highway,
Kotu
The Gambia,
West Africa
Tel no: +220 890 5105
745 3313
986 7701
347 9001
Fax: 446 6560
Email: info@mop.gov.gm
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Information:
The Ministry of Energy was established 2007. It is responsible
for the implementation of government policy in relation to
electricity supply & distribution, water management, petroleum
products and renewable energy
in the growth areas such as tourism
and hotels in Gambia.
 The
aims of the department, as enshrined in the Gambia's Vision
2020 development paper, is to maximise the efficient development
and utilisation of limited energy resources to support economic
development in an environmentally-friendly way to maintain
the advances already gained via investment schemes.
To ensure the provision of adequate, reliable and affordable supplies
of energy to Gambian households in a sustainable way to assist poverty
reduction and economic development.
The department's overall objectives for the Energy sector are to:
• Increase petroleum
exploration in Gambia;
• Improve and expand efficiently, existing energy supply systems
through private sector partnership with the public sector;
• Promote alternative domestic fuels and reduce heavy dependence on
fuel wood;
• Reduce the high dependence on imported oil products;
• Increase
Research and Development (R&D) in energy development;
• Provide sufficient security of energy supply;
• Introduce conservation measures in
relation to energy consumption;
• Increase reforestation and protection of forest resources;
• Minimise environmental damage of energy supply through the
encouragement of more environment-friendly energy supplies such as
renewable energy and natural gas;
• Setting up a suitable database for better planning and
policy implementation;
• Provide adequate security of energy supply to Banjul and the rest of
The Gambia.
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