Tz haina stima ya kutosha...only 15% of the total population has access to electricity while the rest 85%....
Increasing Electricity Access in Tanzania to Reduce Poverty
Situation Analysis and Framework Conditions
Tanzania has abundant and diverse indigenous energy resources which are yet to be fully exploited. The sources include; wood fuel and other biomass fuels, hydropower, natural gas, coal, uranium, wind, geothermal and solar [1] .
Tanzania’s energy supply depends mainly on biomass. Since 85-90% of the population are not connected to the electricity grid, the overwhelming majority of households use wood and charcoal for cooking. As a total, biomass makes up close to 90% of the total primary energy consumption in Tanzania. Unfortunately, this leads to the deforestation of 100,000 h per year, of which only about a quarter is reforested.
[2] Other energy sources are petroleum, which makes up 7.8% of total primary energy consumption, natural gas (2.4%), hydropower (1.2%) and coal/peat (0.3%).
[3] About 6.6 percent of primary energy needs to be imported, primarily from Uganda (8 MW) and Zambia (5 MW) [4]
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Electricity makes up only 0.6% of total energy consumption. [5] In 2008, 4,414 GWh of electricity were generated in Tanzania, of which 2,655 GWh from hydropower, 1600 GWh from natural gas, 119 GWh from coal and 40 GWh from petroleum. Total installed capacity amounted to 1,219 MW, of which 561 MW was hydropower and 658 MW thermal power.