Tanzania Sets To Export Power To African Countries After Generation Of 10,000 MW By 2025

Plans to expand its current power generation capacity by 2025 through investment in thermal and renewable energy has been concluded and disclosed by the Tanzanian Government on Tuesday.

Tanzania's Deputy Energy Minister Subira Mgalu, told parliament in the nation's capital Dodoma that the move was a piece of the administration's central goal to follow up on financial specialists' inquiries over absence of solid power, which harms business in the east African country.

“Implementation of various power generation projects will increase the capacity of our national power grid from 1,602 megawatts (MW) presently to 10,000 megawatts by 2025,’’ Mgalu said.

Tanzania has said it wanted to trade surplus power to power-starved countries in eastern and southern Africa once it had improved its power capacity.

“We need to have abundant and reliable power from an energy mix that includes hydropower, natural gas, solar and wind,’’ Mgalu said when responding to a question by the Special Seats MP Zainab Katimba.

The minister named a portion of the activities to build control generation as the extension of the Kinyerezi I Natural Gas Power Plant from 150 MW to 335 MW whose execution was relied upon to be finished by August.

Different projects incorporate the KInyerezi II 240 MW which had been finished in April 2018, and Mtwara MW 300 Power Project under the sponsorship of the Japan International Cooperation Agency expected to be finished by March 2020.

Also, she stated, by December 2018, the legislature began the usage of the 2,115 MW Rufiji Hydro-Power Project just as 80 MW Rusumo Project.

To meet the 10,000 MW focuses by 2015, the Deputy Minister said they had adjusted Kishapu 150 MW, Singida 100 MW windmill and Coal control undertaking of 600 MW.