DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has invited bids for construction of emergency power plants to supply a total of 260 megawatts (MW) to ease its chronic energy shortages, its president said.
Rainfall has an outsized influence on the agrarian economies of east Africa, which depend on hydro-dams for electricity generation.
"A tender has already been announced to seek a contractor that will meet the required standards and come up with affordable costs," President Jakaya Kikwete said in a month-end national address televised late on Friday.
He said the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) expects to add the new power to the national grid by July.
In mid-January, the government was forced to extend rolling blackouts after a prolonged drought led to a national shortfall of 230 MW.
Tanzania seeks bids for 260 MW power plants | Reuters
Why every time we go for emergency solution?
Do we fail to plan or we plan to fail?
Rainfall has an outsized influence on the agrarian economies of east Africa, which depend on hydro-dams for electricity generation.
"A tender has already been announced to seek a contractor that will meet the required standards and come up with affordable costs," President Jakaya Kikwete said in a month-end national address televised late on Friday.
He said the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) expects to add the new power to the national grid by July.
In mid-January, the government was forced to extend rolling blackouts after a prolonged drought led to a national shortfall of 230 MW.
Tanzania seeks bids for 260 MW power plants | Reuters
Why every time we go for emergency solution?
Do we fail to plan or we plan to fail?