Report shows Tanzania lagging behind in energy development

Report shows Tanzania lagging behind in energy development

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Private power company Aggreko offloads equipment for electricity generation in a bid to improve power generation capacity recently in Dar es Salaam. PHOTO | FILE
By Ludger Kasumuni,The Citizen Reporter

Posted Monday, March 24 2014 at 11:47
In Summary

  • The 2014 EAPI project report also indicates that Eritrea has beaten Tanzania in terms of energy performance indicators

Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania has lagged behind in global energy performance index as it is placed at the second from the bottom of 17 Sub Saharan African nations listed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) under the project on Global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI).


The 2014 EAPI project report also indicates that Eritrea has beaten Tanzania in terms of energy performance indicators listed by the WEF.

Under the 2014 report of WEF released on December 30 last year, the country at the bottom on the list is Benin with 0.35 points and 122 rank, followed by Tanzania with 0.36 points and 121 rank, Togo 0.37 points and 119 rank, Ethiopia 0.39 and 113 rank and Kenya with 0.41 points and 109.

Other countries at the top in the list with their ranks are; Eritrea 0.41 (107), Mozambique 0.42 (106), Senegal 0.42 (99), Cote d'Ivoire 0.43 (97), Botswana 0.44 (95), Nigeria 0.44 (93), Zambia 0.44 (92), Ghana 0.45 (83), Namibia 0.46 (82), Cameroon 0.46 (80), South Africa 0.54, 54, Congo, and DR 0.55 (53).

"Although sub-Saharan Africa achieves one of the lowest average scores compared to other analysed regions, the region has a number of resource-rich countries such as Nigeria, the Republic of Congo and Angola, along with extensive coal reserves in South Africa, reads part of EAPI rep
 
DRC ranks higher than SA. What criteria were they using because I know SA is more connected to eskom than what DRC has. A good part of their energy infrastructure lies dilapidated along the Inga river.
 
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