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Hawa jamaa wana windfarm! umeme wao ni wa windpower!

Tanzania seen to complete 1st wind park in early May
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Blades arriving on site. Source: Rift Valley Energy

April 14 (Renewables Now) - Tanzania is expected to celebrate the opening of its first wind farm next month, when a 2.4-MW facility should finish testing and begin supplying the customers of a rapidly expanding private rural grid network.

The project is being financed with a USD-1.2-million (EUR 1.1m) loan from the Renewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP) that is supported by the UK government.

The wind park will consist of three 800-kW Enercon turbines, which just recently arrived at the site in Mwenga in the Mufindi District of Tanzania’s Iringa region. Their installation and testing is seen to be concluded by early May, according to a press statement.

Upon completion, the new wind park will complement an existing 4-MW hydropower plant that has been powering the rural grid network since 2012. It supplies electricity to over 4,500 homes and businesses across 32 villages, with surplus power sold to Tanzania Electric Supply Co Ltd, better known as TANESCO.

Rift Valley Energy is the developer and operator of the private rural grid network and it plans to connect a further 1,500 customers over the next two years.
(USD 1.0 = EUR 0.912)
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https://renewablesnow.com/news/tanzania-seen-to-complete-1st-wind-park-in-early-may-694991/


Mwenga 2,4 MW Wind Project


Project Developer: Mwenga Hydro Ltd.
Project Status: nearing completion (May 2020)

It is anticipated that as our rural network grows (and general houshold and SME electricity cosumption increases) the Mwenga Hydro power station might soon face difficulties to meet the energy demand of our rural customer base, specifically during the dry season, when water flow levels are at their lowest. At the same time, the wind in this specific area blows the hardest during the dry season, and having electricity generated from a wind power site, close to our rural network (and feeding into it) would help to compensate for the lack of power generated by the hydro during the dry season, while stablising our and the TNEASCO grid during this season.

The Mwenga Wind Project is beeing devloped as a private, renewable energy infrastructure project, consisting of an initial 2.4 MW of wind capaciy, which is expected to balance the growing needs of the Mwenga Hydro rural electrification network, as well as promote the further growth and development of rural electrification throughout this area of Tanzania.

The expected energy output will be about 7 GWh per annum.

The project is located nearby the village Usokami, a village situated in the Kihansi Basin (Iringa region, Southern Tanzania) an area in which economy is dominated by agricultural activities, with the timber industry being the largest, plus various subsistence farming activities.The actual site was chosen for its high wind speeds relative to other possible locations nearby, as well as its close proximity to the Mwenga network (expansion into the Kihansi Basin) – as Usokami will be one of the villages connected under this project. The actual wind power will come from 3 x 800 kw wind turbines (as the mountainous terrain and poor road conditions in Tanzania favour smaller turbines that are easier to transport and erect).

RVE has recently closed a 1,2 M US$ Mezzanin loan from REPP (REPP | Renewable Energy Performance Platform), which has been critical to concluding the financial structure for the project, while providing also a necessary risk reduction mechanisms to best manage the anticipated rapid evolution of our associated growing rural distribution markets.

As of end of March 2020 all necessary turbine components have successfully delivered to site, the actual turbine errection process has started in April, with commissioning anticipated for May 2020. Once completed this project will be part of East Africa’s first wind and hydro hybrid development providing clean, grid quality power to about 100,000 people living in the project area.

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