Taifa katika hatihati ya kurudi gizani!

[Manyi]

Dah, inabidi waziri mpya sasa awe tested na mbinu gani atakazo kuja nazo. Si Prof. tuuu halafu mbinu zile zile. Ngoma inogile!

 

[Mjenda Chilo]

Nasema tatizo la umeme haliwezi kwisha kwa style hizi za PPP, tuamue iwe purely public au purely private. Dili zinazopigwa tanesco za mafuta haiwezekani mkapata umeme nyinyi, eti makaa ya mawe? nasikia wachina wanayachimba na utasikia wanayauza nje. bla bla kibao wkt hata umeme ni biashara nzuri ambayo ingeingiza milions. I wish there was no political cadres. nchi iongozwe na a pure CEO, wananchi tule madividend, siasa kero sana especialy tz politics mh! mark time milele.

 

[Mjenda Chilo]

Dah, inabidi waziri mpya sasa awe tested na mbinu gani atakazo kuja nazo. Si Prof. tuuu halafu mbinu zile zile. Ngoma inogile!

Waziri haleti umeme bwana, Tanesco inaongozwa na technical team na wanabodi yao. We expect too much from them mwisho wake wanavimba kichwa na kuvuruga mipango ya kitaalam. miamba na umeme wapi na wapi? Waziri ni oversear tu na anawajibika kwa nafasi hiyo. Wataalam wanapelekwapelekwa sana na matokeo ndo haya

 

[BADILI TABIA]

kigumu chama cha mapinduzi!!!!

 

[Manyi]

Waziri haleti umeme bwana, Tanesco inaongozwa na technical team na wanabodi yao. We expect too much from them mwisho wake wanavimba kichwa na kuvuruga mipango ya kitaalam. miamba na umeme wapi na wapi? Waziri ni oversear tu na anawajibika kwa nafasi hiyo. Wataalam wanapelekwapelekwa sana na matokeo ndo haya

Nakuelewa sana mkuu. Lakini kumbuka mkuu. pamoja na kuwa yeye ni oversear, lakini anawajibika kwa for any strategic decisions. Najua sana kwamba ni mtaalam wa miamba, lakini hiki si kigezo. Sidhani kama mawaziri wote katika wizara zao wana utaalam wa kuongoza hizo wizara. Kwani Ngeleja alikuwa mtaalam wa Umeme, mbona alikuwa sacked kwa kutokuja na strategic decisions za kuongoza Wizara nzima. Ni kweli kwamba, siasa imechangia sana kuua hili shirika.

 

[BAK]

Tanesco power blues: Who is fooling who?

By Editor

21st July 2012

Last Sunday, our sister newspaper, The Guardian on Sunday published a well-detailed front-page story outlining reasons why the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) couldn't get a Sh408 billion loan from a consortium of local banks. And this apparent failure to raise the money is coming almost a year since Parliament endorsed the loan to finance a comprehensive power rescue package.

Let's be clear about this at the outset: the banks aren't saying they are unwilling to lend the state power utility; rather, it's the usual yarn that some bureaucrats love to spin within the government, especially those at Treasury, who we believe are creating a façade to mask their own lack of resolve to act on the deal.

It's just as clear that the loan was part of a Sh523 billion power rescue package which the august House endorsed on August 13, 2011, specifically aimed at resolving a running, if erratic, power shedding ravaging the country's economy at the time.

In other words, the loan was meant to prevent a bad situation from getting worse; in crude terms, it was an emergency calling for immediate action. As it turns out, an emergency is indeed an emergency – as long as we do not mind how long it takes! It has since taken nine long months of negotiations, and there is yet no clue of a breakthrough in sight. Who is fooling who, if we may ask?

Incredibly, as some of these mandarins at Treasury hold back progress on this deal for nine whole months, no one seems to getting the danger blips on the radar, at least not from the country's top leadership, from whom the public expects to see some serious intervention.

Do we have to wait for another angry rejection of budgets by Parliament before those tasked with okaying the deal are goaded into action? For sure, the Members of Parliament who endorsed it nine months ago aren't running on short memory; they as everyone else can no longer wait to be told the truth: will the loan be secured – finally?.

We acknowledge the role that Tanesco and its parent ministry (Energy and Minerals) are playing, and have played, with regard to the loan, but red tape remains the main barrier, fuelled mainly by lack of seriousness on the part of Treasury officials.

This country paid dearly through those 18 months of erratic power shutdowns, from which Tanesco suffered financial losses amounting to Sh420 billion in forgone revenue even as the country's economy was almost brought to its knees. Some 50 companies either closed down, or were being forced to reduce their production by 50 percent.

We are told that every single unit of electricity which is not produced and supplied costs the economy Sh1,749 ($1.10), but those costs are reduced to a fraction (Sh300) when power is available and running.

Having gone through the agony of the endless load shedding schedules one wouldn't expect some junior officials at Treasury to use their positions to delay Tanesco's loan. If it takes government officials nine whole months of endless meetings just to discuss a Sh408 billion loan at a time when the nation is in a power crisis, then we are in more trouble as a country than we realize.

An eminent expert on bureaucracy, Alan Keyes, once wrote, "Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients."

This observation is borne out by the fact that today Tanesco and Tanzanians are not the masters of bureaucrats at Treasury; both the utility firm and the people are clients of a system that behaves as if they do not exist.

While Tanesco faces dire financial doldrums – soon to pull everyone of us into another cycle of crude blackouts -- some of those at Treasury are drawing lots of money in sitting allowances for endless non-productive meetings. As if this isn't enough insult, they are taking us for a ride, too.

Ironically, if things were to worsen – and another power shedding regime resumes – it will be Tanesco, not the Treasury officials, who will suffer the butt of political whipping by politicians out to make capital out everyone's misery.

We, therefore, strongly believe that this is not just bureaucratic ineptitude but economic sabotage at work. Those bureaucrats at Treasury are economic saboteurs whose acts will cost this country very dearly.
That's why today we ask: just how serious is the government in helping Tanesco produce and distribute not only reliable but affordable power for the country?

The loan apart, this government also promised to dole out Sh80 billion as subsidy before this July (read this year). But as we go to print this editorial, not a single pledge had been translated into shillings for the troubled state power utility.



SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

 

[BAK]

[h=2]Power crisis looms amid battle for Tanesco`s soul[/h]


By Florian Kaijage



22nd July 2012



Yet another dark cloud of power shedding lurks ahead should the government back down on its own pledges to bail out its money-starved Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco), The Guardian on Sunday can reveal.





This comes in the wake of last week's apparent government attempts at shifting goal posts, analysts say, citing suspension of Tanesco's top management as a case in point.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Eliakim Maswi, last week accused the state-owned utility firm's top managers of ‘intentionally' planning and initiating power rationing to damage the credibility of the government in the Parliament.

However, the latest move contradicts a firm government stand on power rationing,also made by Mr Maswi, who had earlier vowed that ‘there will never be power rationing in the country', and that severe load-shedding would soon become history among Tanzanians.

According to analysts, there is a close link between the financial crisis facing the cash-strapped power firm and its failure to secure a Sh408 billion loan from the consortium of local banks, as well the government's delayed guarantee required by the lenders.

Fears of a repeat period of black-outs stem from the fact that while the government has not honoured its financial commitments to Tanesco – made public inside Parliament last August -- the level of waters in the main hydropower generation dams is dropping drastically, with the likelihood that it could worsen by the end the year.

A technical report prepared by Tanesco management which was presented last week to its board of directors and a copy served to the Minister of Energy and Minerals reveals that Tanesco needs Sh462 billion from the government to cover the deficit for the period between July and December, this year.
The monies would enable the utility firm to run the business efficiently -- and without power rationing – or face another darkness.

The nine-page report states clearly that while Tanesco expects to generate Sh566.771 billion in the next six months through electricity sales, the cost of buying power from independent producers would amount to Sh587.156 billion, costlier by at least by 4 percent than Tanesco's projected revenues during that period.

The report cited the independent power producers who stand to pocket the hefty gains as Songas, Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL), Symbion (Dododoma, Dar es Salaam and Arusha) and Aggreko.

The document further reveals that Tanesco projects to earn Sh181.43 billion from other power sales – which apparently includes a government pledge of Sh80 billion to support the running costs.
However, this pledge has yet to be translated into a resource for Tanesco coffers.

In January, this year Tanesco had proposed to raise its power tariffs by 150 percent, but the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) later capped it at just 40 percent.

"The Government is advised to search for the Sh462.07 billion so as to bail out the firm financially during this transitional period without necessarily increasing existing power tariffs. Also there are lenders who have shown intent to offer financial credit to government so as to have a workable solution to the problems during emergency period.


These lenders are ready to effect $300 million (Sh480 billion) in 8 to 10 weeks after the agreement is reached. The government can consider bringing such stakeholder on board under the current strategies" the Tanesco report affirms.

Tanesco management argues that since the amount needed exceeds the proposed -- but stalled -- Sh408 loan from a consortium of banks, there was need for the government to look for alternative sources of finance to salvage the national utility firm and the power generation.

"The required money is beyond the Sh408 loan amount from a consortium of commercial banks (which in principal will earn Tanesco Sh346.8 billion only because the government will approve for 85 percent guarantee at maximum) we have attached the financial position analysis if Tanesco will not be granted approval to increase power tariffs" noted the report.
While it was expected that the money from the loan would primarily serve to improve power generation, Tanesco argues in its report to the board of directors and the parent ministry that if the loan is secured, it would help to settle overdue debts amounting to Sh276.81 billion.

"The remaining money will cater for cost emanating from emergency power generating plants," the report says.

Our sister paper, reported on Saturday that Tanesco's hope to secure the Sh408 loan was fading, and that the firm might settle for a paltry $65 million (Sh103 billion) in bridge financing. Finance Minister Dr William Mgimwa was quoted as saying the government had put the loan on hold for good reasons – but declined further details.

Poor state of hydro dams
While the central government is slow in facilitating the loans that would finance reliable power generation, the Tanesco report reveals that under the current operations the major dams on Great Ruaha river could possibly dry up by the turn of this year.

The document shows that by December, 2012 the water level at Mtera dam, the main water reservoir for Kidatu dam in Morogoro, would be less that a meter above the minimum operational level – recommended at 687.5 meters above sea level – could go down to nearly 688 meters.

The report tells the board and to the parent ministry – in cleat terms -- that there has been a steady decrease of water level at Mtera dam for the past three months beginning mid-April, forcing Tanesco to switch off for lack of diesel, Heavy Fuel

Oil or Jet A1
"Based on the power generation plan for July- December 2012 hydro plants will generate an average of 151 megawatts as follows: Mtera will generate 22 megawatts, Kidatu 54 , Kihansi 60, Nyumba ya Mungu 3, Hale 3, New Pangai Falls 9 and Uwemba 0.2 megawatts.

This implies that the projected generation capacity of all hydro plants (151megwatts) amounts to a mere 27 percent of the 561MW installed capacity of the six hydro plants.

As such, power generation now depends heavily on emergency power generation by operating gas and fuel powered plants which, according to the report by Tanesco, is projected to count for over three-quarters-(76.38MW) of the total national requirement. Gas will account for a major share of 49.79 percent and fuel plants 26.59 while hydro plants will produce the remaining 23.62 percent.

Now with the poor state of dams, it is clear that the country faces imminent danger of a repeated power crisis reminiscent of 2006.



SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY

 

[Njowepo]

Twangoja mgao tuu maana blah blah zao tushazizoea

 

[Return Of Undertaker]

kigumu chama cha mapinduzi!!!!

Hivi ule mradi sijui nini yale maporomoko kipindi kile Anne Kilango alipigia kilele imefikia wapi katika uwekezaji?

 

[Michael Scofield]

Hivi mnategemea matatizo ya umeme yakitatuliwa wao watakula wapi?
Hii mikataba yote na makampuni ya sijui Symbion, Agreko n.k ni ten percent za hawahawa tunaowategemea watutatulie matatizo ya mgao wa umeme.
Mgao wa umeme kuisha ni mpaka uongozi wa chama cha mapinduzi ung'olewe madarakani, kwani kila anaeingia katika nafasi anamtetea aliepita kwa kuwa alifanya kwa maslahi ya chama chao.

 

[Mayunga6]

I wish mgao huu ungekuwa sawa kwa sawa na hao 'madhaifu' 'mafisadi' kwani wao hawadhuriki moja kwa moja.
Tuna bwabwaja tu bila kupinga mipango mibovu ya Serikali,..doh!
#Badili Tanzania

 

[fyddell]

Nadhani sasa mtamwelewa aliyoyasema Mhando!!!

 

[Safari_ni_Safari]

Hapa inasukwa TENDER under energency kusupply mafuta ya ile mitambo ya MZEE MWINYI (ati IPTL) kule salasala

 

[Ng'wanangwa]

kama kuna kitu serekali ya mtoto wa bagamoyo wanapashwa kufanya, angalau kwa sasa, kulinda heshima yao, basi ni kuzuia kwa namna yoyote suala la mgawo. it will be even worse, hasa kwa kuzingatia ugumu wa maisha ulivyo.

 

[MtamaMchungu]

Dawa ni kung'oa majenereta yote kwa vigogo.

 

[Kalumbesa]

Problems cant be solved by the same level of thinking which created them! Subiri sasa hivi mtaambiwa "Serikali haina namna ya kugeuka wingu la mvua ikanyeshe pale Mtera"