Your procedures with the Directorate-General for Energy

👥 Who is concerned?

Any individual or legal entity (company, manufacturer, farm operator…) wishing to install an autonomous power production unit.

📎 Required documents

• Full identity of the applicant (trade register for companies)
• Precise location of the installation site
• Technical characteristics of the equipment (source, installed capacity)
• Preliminary study depending on the applicable regime

🪜 Steps

1. Identify your regime (declaration or authorisation) per the thresholds order
2. Prepare the file with the documents listed above
3. Submit the file to the DGE
4. Processing by our services, then notification of the decision

📥 Filing

By mail to DGE headquarters (EECI Building, Plateau, Abidjan) or by e-mail to infos@dgenergie.ci — subject: “Self-production authorisation request”.

💰 Cost

Communicated during processing, depending on capacity and applicable regime.

⏱️ Timeline

Varies by regime; an acknowledgement is sent upon registration of the file.

📜 Reference texts

• Order on self-production activity thresholds (PDF)
• Order — authorisation request and approval (PDF)
• Order defining customer status (PDF)

📧 Contact

infos@dgenergie.ci · or via the contact form

👥 Who is concerned?

Qualified individuals and consulting firms wishing to practise as licensed energy auditors.

📎 Required documents

• Application addressed to the Directorate-General for Energy
• Proof of qualification and experience in energy efficiency
• Administrative file of the firm (for consulting firms)

🪜 Steps

1. Submit the licence application with the complete file
2. Review of the file by the competent DGE services
3. Issuance of the licence and inclusion in the official list

📥 Filing

By e-mail to infos@dgenergie.ci — subject: “Energy auditor licence application” — or at DGE headquarters.

💰 Cost

Communicated during processing.

⏱️ Timeline

Communicated upon registration of the application.

📜 Reference texts

• Order — authorisation request and approval (PDF)

📧 Contact

infos@dgenergie.ci · or via the contact form

👥 Who is concerned?

Researchers, students, institutions, companies and development partners.

📎 Required documents

• Request specifying the data required, the period and the format
• Justification of the intended use (research, study, project…)

🪜 Steps

1. Send the request to the statistics service
2. Verification of data availability
3. Delivery of the data or referral to the relevant publication

📥 Filing

By e-mail to infos@dgenergie.ci — subject: “Statistical data request” — or via the contact form.

💰 Cost

Free for public data.

⏱️ Timeline

Depending on availability and volume of requested data.

📧 Contact

infos@dgenergie.ci · or via the contact form

👥 Who is concerned?

Any legal entity or company importing into Côte d'Ivoire renewable energy production and distribution equipment, or raw materials enabling energy savings and protecting the environment.

📎 Required documents

• Exemption certificate application (taxpayer account number, references of the exempting text, description and tariff heading of the goods, FOB and CIF values, invoice number, transport document…)
• Copy of the Certificate(s) of Conformity covering the standards listed in the annex of the notice (accredited third-party certification bodies)
• Copy of the Certificate of Conformity (CoC) issued by one of the companies mandated for pre-shipment verification
• Copy of the licence issued by the Minister in charge of energy (for operators of related activities)
• Copy of the declaration receipt or authorisation (equipment intended for a self-production installation)
• Exhaustive list of imported equipment and their invoices
• Valid Tax Compliance Certificate (ARF) and Customs Compliance Certificate (ARD)
• Copy of the Trade and Personal Property Credit Register (RCCM)
• Project memo (purpose of the equipment, objective, final destination: department, town, village and GPS coordinates)

🪜 Steps

1. Check the eligibility of the equipment in the list set by interministerial order No. 532 of 22 October 2024 (updated every two years)
2. Send the exemption certificate application to the Director of Renewable Energies and Bioenergy (DERB) — DGE, 5th floor of the NSIA building, Abidjan-Plateau
3. Processing by the DGE/DERB, then referral to the Directorate-General of Customs for validation, registration and integration into the SYDAM system
4. Issuance of a digital certificate with a unique number
5. After import: use strictly as declared, retention of supporting documents for 5 years and annual declaration to the DGE of goods acquired under exemption

🧰 Eligible equipment (by technology)

• Solar photovoltaic: modules, batteries (≥ 2000 cycles at 50% depth of discharge), inverters/converters, solar kits, charge controllers, solar cables, solar streetlights and lamps, solar pumps, fridges and air conditioners…
• Solar thermal and thermodynamic: collectors, solar water heaters, dryers, concentrators, solar ovens and cookers, steam turbines…
• Wind: blades, generators, wind pumps, masts, converters, regulators…
• Bioenergy: biodigesters, biogas tanks and burners, biomass grinders, biogas or biofuel generators, improved cookstoves, pyrolysers, carbonisers…
• Hydropower (micro, small and medium): hydraulic turbines and alternators, regulators, valves…
• Cross-cutting equipment: grid synchronisation and injection, control and protection cabinets, DC lightning arresters, measuring instruments…
• Raw materials and parts intended for local manufacturing or assembly of renewable equipment (reserved for companies and craftsmen holding a manufacturing/assembly licence)

📥 Filing

Application addressed to the Director of Renewable Energies and Bioenergy — Directorate-General for Energy, 5th floor of the NSIA building, Abidjan-Plateau — or by e-mail to infos@dgenergie.ci. Eventually, the application will be fully digitised through the Foreign Trade Single Window (GUCE) platform.

💰 Cost

Free processing; the exemption covers VAT and customs duties and taxes (excluding community levies PCS, PCC, PUA and the bank transactions tax).

⏱️ Timeline

Communicated upon registration of the file; the digital certificate is issued after validation by the DGE and then Customs.

📜 Reference texts

• Notice to renewable energy equipment importers No. 2047/MMPE/MCI/DGE/DGCE of 10 July 2025 (PDF)
• List of eligible equipment — Directive No. 02/2022/CM/UEMOA (January 2024) (PDF)
• Tax annex to Law No. 2023-1000 of 18 December 2023 on the 2024 State budget (article 18)
• Interministerial order No. 532/MMPE/MFB/MINEDDTE of 22 October 2024 (list of exempted equipment)
• Customs DG circular No. 2355/MFB/DGD of 25 April 2025

📧 Contact

infos@dgenergie.ci · or via the contact form