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  • Construction of Kenya-Tanzania Power Interconnection Project Gears Up to Connect Southern Africa Power Pool

    Posted on :Tuesday , 19th February 2019

    The Kenya-Tanzania Power Interconnection Project has been divided into several lots, with contractors on the Tanzanian side executing to set up a 510km 400kv transmission line and following substations in order to meet the 2020 completion deadline.


    The project is being achieved by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) through a $258.82 million loan from the African De. . .

  • TANESCO Power Project Extends Power Supply Across Africa

    Posted on :Wednesday , 30th January 2019

    In order to exchange electricity effectively the state-owned power utility firm is currently undertaking the Kenya-Tanzania Power Interconnection Project (KTPIP).

    The project includes building of a 400kV transmission line from Singida to Isinya in Kenya through Babati, Arusha and Namanga.

    Kenya’s extension of transmission line to Ethiopia and while Tanzania e. . .

  • Obama fund grants Kenyan green energy Sh650 million to boost electrification

    Posted on :Monday , 14th January 2019

    Former US President Barack Obama’s Power Africa initiative has showered Kenyan green energy projects with grants totalling Sh650 million in efforts to accelerate electrification.

    Mr Obama still launched Power Africa as a policy tool to unravel and activate investments in the continent’s energy space as a way of driving out energy scarcity.

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  • Kenya pushes back plans for Sh968bn nuclear power plant to focus on renewables

    Posted on :Wednesday , 3rd October 2018

    Kenya’s Ministry of Energy has released an updated power development plan, unveiling the nation’s energy strategy between 2017 and 2037.

    Under the strategy, construction of the planned Sh968bn (US$9.6bn) nuclear power plant has been postponed by nine years.

    The plant had been initially intended for building in 2027, but is now set for 2036 at the earlie. . .

  • First phase of power pool project to be completion by mid 2019

    Posted on :Friday , 17th August 2018

     Concluding the first phase of the region's power pool project, the Ethiopia and Kenya electricity transmission interconnector is anticipated to be completed next year.

     
    Tanzania was given more than $450 million by the World Bank for a similar project that will connect the country to Zambia and South Africa, under the regional power pool project.
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