Wacha emotions wewe, kwani nani kakuambia Kinyerezi III and IV hazitajengwa? GoT immediate plan ni kuwa na 5000MW na huu ni kati ya miradi ya ukanda wa maendeleo wa Mtwara chini ya Songwe River Basin Management na ni mradi ulio na financial backup ya AfDB na si mradi wa kujiamulia as such! Kingine miradi kama hii itaondoa mgogoro wa mpaka wa lake Nyasa! Think big mshikaji!
Watu mnaropoka, kha...! Unaletewa neema unaanza kuinyea! Huu ni mradi wa bilateral kati ya nchi zinazo-share transboundary water resources! Hujiamulii tu na isitoshe unit cost ya Hydropower iko chini kuliko umeme unaotokana na gas generators na maintenace cost ya Hydropower plant ni ndogo zaidi! Diversification of energy sources ni muhimu wakati wote kwa nchi! Zaidi ya haya yote kuna irrigation benefits zitaambatana na mradi huu!
Alliance for Songwe River Basin development
MALAWI/TANZANIA: Alliance for Songwe River Basin development
By Jean Marie Takouleu - Published on March 22 2019 / Modified on October 12 2019
A commission has recently been set up between Malawi and Tanzania. It will make it possible to better exploit the Songwe River Basin, the natural border between the two countries. Several hydraulic projects are in the spotlight.
The Songwe River is at the centre of attention in Malawi and Tanzania. Both countries want to develop the basin of this watercourse as a natural boundary. To this end, a joint commission was recently launched in Kyela District, Mbeya region (Tanzania) by Joseph Mwanamvekha, Malawi’s Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water, and Jumaa Aweso, Tanzania’s Deputy Minister of Water and Irrigation. The body aims to facilitate investment in development projects around the Songwe River.
The 472 km long Songwe River originates in Poroto-Berge, Tanzania, zigzags between the two borders before flowing into Lake Malawi. “The objective of the commission is to supervise the management of the river basin resources for the benefit of the populations of the two neighbouring countries,” according to the Tanzanian and Malawian authorities.
Expected hydraulic projects!
The new commission is being formed as the two countries are already working together on the 180 MW Songwe hydroelectric project. The dam and power plant will be located south of the town of Itumba, 120 km from Mbeya. The feasibility study of the project, financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), has been carried out since 2015. The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) has also been completed since 2017.
The project requires a $829 million investment to complete. Tanzania and Malawi, seeking financing, have already obtained the AfDB’s agreement to invest in this project. The energy produced will be equally divided (90 MW) between Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (Tanesco) and Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited, the two companies that provide public electricity services in the two respective countries.
In addition to this hydroelectric project, the Tanzania-Malawi Joint Commission on Songwe River Basin Management is developing an irrigation project. The initiative covers 6,000 hectares of plantations on both sides of the border. Irrigation water will be pumped from the Songwe Dam.
In East Africa, the joint initiative of countries for the development of watercourses is an attractive practice. This is evidenced by the recent collaboration between Zimbabwe and Zambia in the construction of the Batoka Gorge Dam on the Zambezi River. The project is led by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), an organisation owned by both states. The future Batoka Gorge hydroelectric power plant will provide 2,400 MW divided equally between Zimbabwe and Zambia.
MALAWI/TANZANIA: Alliance for Songwe River Basin development | Afrik 21
Four countries, one people, one development corridor: Mtwara
January 19, 2005
SANF 05 no 04
A new development corridor holds the promise of development and prosperity for a hitherto underdeveloped region in the heart of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The leaders of four SADC member states met in the last days of 2004 to sign a legal framework that should make the Mtwara Development Corridor a reality and improve the lives of the people who live in the northern provinces of Malawi and Mozambique, the northern and eastern provinces of Zambia, and the southern regions of Tanzania.
President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania said it was a matter of “great personal satisfaction and pleasure” to have a legal document that “formally binds our countries and illustrates to our people and our external development partners our firm commitment to move from intent to action.”
The purpose of the corridor is to promote trade and investment in the four countries by improving and integrating transportation and other infrastructure.
“Seven years ago, conscious of the poverty prevalent in the regions of our countries that bestride the Mtwara Corridor area,” Mkapa said, “and being aware of the enormous potential for development that resources along the corridor provide, we decided to work together to open up and develop the corridor as a regional project.
“We are also conscious of the fact that our people along this corridor, in all the four countries, are in reality one people, an African people, separated only by colonial borders that we inherited.
“This corridor must be the beginning of joint efforts to bring them even closer as people, and as partners in development.” He cautioned that, “the political will we have displayed today now has to translate in a measurable and timed implementation process.”
The inaugural summit and launch of the Mtwara Development Corridor was hosted by President Bingu wa Mutharika in Lilongwe, Malawi, and attended, in addition to Mkapa, by the Presidents of Zambia and Mozambique, Levy Mwanawasa and Joaquim Chissano.
Mkapa said the four leaders were committing themselves unreservedly to work together as governments, “in partnership with bilateral and multilateral donors and the private sector to unlock the development potential of this corridor through the building or improvement of infrastructure, namely roads, bridges, ports, railway lines, telecommunications, and airports.
“We are also committing ourselves to a public-private partnership to exploit the abundant natural resources along the corridor, such as minerals, energy, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism. We are confident that the economic linkages that will emanate from all these activities will open many opportunities for self-development for our people.
He urged support for “this regional endeavour for poverty reduction and growth” that will help to fast track regional integration, saying there are two key issues to be urgently addressed in the four countries. These are to ensure that formalized trade between and among the countries is given priority; and to ensure the identification by each country of anchor projects within its zone.
“These projects should have a direct regional connectivity, benefiting more than one country; and have direct and speedy economic impact on the incomes and welfare of the people residing in the areas.”
President Mwanawasa said the initiative was in line with SADC’s policy of promoting cross-border trade through the integration of transport networks, and would benefit several provinces of Zambia by promoting the development of local agriculture, fishery, tourism and mining sectors.
He said that, as a landlocked country, Zambia must pursue a policy of regional cooperation as the only way to maximize the use of transport infrastructure and institutional capacities.
The host, President Mutharika of Malawi, stressed that the success of the corridor will depend on strong private sector confidence and participation.
Development projects under the Mtwara corridor initiative include the Unity Bridge to be built across the Ruvuma river between Mozambique and Tanzania, which Mkapa called “a historical task as well as a development imperative.”
Another project is the Mbamba Bay road from Lake Malawi/Nyasa to Mtwara that would efficiently connect Malawi, Tanzania and northern Mozambique; and an oil pipeline on the same route.
Other projects include the exploitation of the huge Mchuchuma coal reserves for power generation that could supplement energy supplies for Malawi and Mozambique; a heavy capacity ferry linking Nkhata Bay in Malawi with Mbamba Bay across the lake in Tanzania; interconnection of the power grids of Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania, and, Mtwara port itself to be expanded and operations improved.
The corridor has unique potential for tourism, with its Indian Ocean beaches, clear waters and marine parks; the vast dinosaur beds at Tendaguru, near Mtwara; the Kitulo plateau, known as the “Serengeti of flowers”; and Lake Malawi/Nyasa. There is a natural elephant corridor between northern Mozambique and the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania, the largest game reserve in the world.
There is also potential for historical tourism of a more current nature at Nachingwea, the training camp for nationalist freedom fighters who brought independence to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
The development of infrastructure such as that envisaged in the Mtwara Development Corridor, is top priority for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the development blueprint of the African Union.
(SARDC)
Four countries, one people, one development corridor: Mtwara
unabishana na mtu anaefanya kazi kwenye power plant, before & after construction & installation! kiufupi hizo 180MW sio za kujengwa kwa 1.3trill
Cha kufurahisha katika mradi huu wananchi waliovunjiwa nyumba zao watapewa nyumba mpya bure.
So unajua career yangu mimi? au kwa vile unapatia mkate wako hapo basi u count out the overall economic benefits ya mradi huu wa Songwe basin over a longterm period! Wacha hizo mzee, gas to power generators maintenance cost yake is way above the maintenance cost of turbine genearators!
Isitoshe u import a complete generator that means u outsource jobs huko nje iwe Siemens au General Electrical generators! Hapo ulipoongea tu unaonyesha conflict of interests! Hapo ulipo nina uhakika kuna experts toka nje esp. toka kampuni iliyotengeneza mtambo kuja kufanya regular check up, servicing and maintenance, be it on yearly basis! Aside the fact u buy gas to run the generators wherever the plant is on! Plse talk of economics on the overall cost si ununuzi wa mitambo na installation tu!
bro maneno mengi sio kigezo unaongea point. unapoambiwa ukweli ukibali... hata sisi tulioko kwenye plants tunajua na kuprefer more hydroPP zaid ya power plant nyingine yoyote.. 180MW sio ya kujenga kwa tsh 1.3 tril!
| Project | Capital expenditure (US$ million) | Technical assistance required (US $million) |
1 | Lower Songwe dam (330 million m3) and hydropower plant (180.2 MW), managed as a public-private partnership | 550 | 0 |
2 | Irrigation and drainage schemes (6,200 ha) | 99 | TBC |
3 | Urban water supply to Kasumulu town (Tanzania) | | |
| Immediate measures | 0.42 | 0 |
| Long-term measures | 4.08 | TBC |
4 | Urban water supply to Songwe town (Malawi) | | |
| Immediate measures | 0.52 | 0 |
| Long-term measures | 3.98 | TBC |
5 | Rural water supply | 13 | TBC |
6 | Institutional and environmental measures | 13 | TBC |
7 | Priority social infrastructure (roads, schools and health centres) | 3 | TBC |
| Sub-total: Priority investments | 687 | |
8 | Rural electrification | 90 | TBC |
9 | Social infrastructure | 42 | TBC |
10 | Economic development (fisheries, tourism, small industry support) | 8 | TBC |
11 | Detailed design, Middle Songwe dam | 2 | TBC |
| Sub-total: Other investments | 142 | |
| Grand total | 829 | |
bro maneno mengi sio kigezo unaongea point. unapoambiwa ukweli ukubali... hata sisi tulioko kwenye plants tunajua na kuprefer more hydroPP zaid ya power plant nyingine yoyote.. 180MW sio ya kujenga kwa tsh 1.3 tril!
180 MW ni minimum amount pitia project manuals usome na pia kuna irrigation part huizungumzii!
tuache hili! tuseme 180 MW is the maximum power to be generated!ehn haya umeshinda!
NB: ikisemwa plant flan inajengwa.. MW inayotajwa sikuzote hio ndo inakuwa maximum! huwez kusema unajenga plant ya 200MW afu mtambo unatoa 210MW
Mombasa iko ligi yako naniiMombasa inagaragazwa na change inabaki
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Kenya wazembe sn hawa jamaa.wanapenda kuweka picha za siku imekuwa launched 2 years after hawataki!
Nadhani watu wengi wanaelewa cost ya gas plants lazima ununue gas..the point ya kuzijenga mara ya kwanza ni nini if hydro is the best ?katika hiyo $550 mln, umeangalia value chain yake? Ukijenga gas to electricity generation plant ni una-import generators na kufunga! Pretty sure over 90% of the project cost is to be outsourced i.e from abroad that includes the procurement of manpower with the necessary skills (gas to electrical power generatorion).
Unlike gas-electric power generation when one does hydropower plant, steel bars, quarries and cement plus civil engineers n manual workers r from within the country (Tanesco has been doing hydropower projects since 1970s) only generators n few engineers r to be procured from outside!
BTW u mentioned Kinyerezi III and IV but u r listing Kinyerezi III and Kinyerezi I extension! which is which mzee? Can u tell us Kinyerezi I cost before extension? How about lifespan of the power generators? Kingine Songwe hydropower project is to produce up to +300 MW that 180 MW is all year around figure!
Nadhani watu wengi wanaelewa cost ya gas plants lazima ununue gas..the point ya kuzijenga mara ya kwanza ni nini if hydro is the best ?
Sisi tuna Gas..hata kama tunanunua bado inabidi iwe cheap..sio?
Hydro is way more cheaper than gas that is known..but Hydro ina disadvantages zake pia..kama wakati wa ukame..output itapungua au kutokuepo..tumeona Hii mtera na kidatu na hata kihansi.. Ndo mgao wa umeme ulianzaga hivi
Cost ya ku maintain hydro ni ndogo kuliko Gas.
Cause gas turbines zitahitaji service zaidi ya parts mbali mbali...
Ila kama Tz tumebarikiwa sana na hydro..whats the point ya ku exploit gas mzee?si tungetumia hydro tu milele..its like we unaona gas plant hazifai kujengwa tena milele cause gas itanunuliwa
Kwanini tumefikiria kujenga bomba la Dola million 500 hadi Dar...si tungeacha tu gas iwe processed huko mtwara na gas plants zikae huko huko mtwara umeme ujengewe grid uwe supplied
Kinyerezi 1 kuna mitambo Miwili
Kinyerezi 1 150MW around 160mil usd
Kinyerezi 1 extension 185MW 188mil usd
Hio yote itapelekea Kinyerezi 1 kuzalisha 335MW
tuachane na hayo yote ..mimi point yangu inakuja kwenye Deni ambalo Tpdc alichukua kutoka exim china kujenga hili bomba na moja ya primary reason ilikuwa production ya umeme kwa kujenga Kinyerezi complex(1,1ext,2,3&4) itayozalisha 1625MW ..ila inaonekana tunarukia project nyingne before kumaliza what we started na hvyo bomba linakuwa under used
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wanajiita wazee wa way back....[emoji3][emoji3]Hatuwezi kuwa wakwanza hata tukiongeza viti laki 2, lazima wakenya watatuzidi, " Sisi tulishajenga miaka kumi nyuma"[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]