MHESHIMIWA WAZIRI MUHONGO: TUNADHALILISHWA UWEKEZAJI WA COAL POWER GENERATION:
Dear Professor Muhongo MEM
I am very confident that your nomination back to Ministry of Energy and Minerals, is one of the best choice our Excellency President Magufuli has made, and God willing you will continue to develop this Ministry and achieve excellent results for the Nation at large.
Please Sir look in to the following areas, of potential power generation, ili tuondekewe na uhaba wa umeme: I am constant visitor to India and have seen how coal fired power plants are helping that nation in producing enough power to help run their economies; I had the opportunity to visit some plants in Hyderabad.
1. In Tanzania we have three major area where coal reserves are plentiful; A) MCHUCHUMA/LIGANGA, B) NGAKA AND C) KIWIRA, The reserves are estimated to be 5 billion metric tons , as announced by yourself. This by itself should have made us very self-sufficient in power, rather that very expensive Fuel/Oil based power generation. (Tanzania has 5 billion t of coal reserves)
2. MCHUCHUMA/LIGANGA,/;
This coal reserves are under NDC, and they have gone in to a JV with a Chinese company (Sichuan Hongda Co. Ltd) to build a huge steel plant using the Iron Ore reserves, and the Huge Coal reserves to produce power for the Steel plant and the extra power shall be used in the National Grid. I believe that this project is in progress, however if they had built the power plant first, today we would have had enough Power that would have made todays power cuts things of the past.
3. NGAKA COAL:
This field was awarded to a venture Capitalists Australian company (Tanzania. Tancoal Energy Ltd) in a JV with NDC, the JV was entered during 2008, It is one of the best Coal field with a very high quality of coal and with an estimated reserves of 1 billion MT. This means Ngaka Coal Mine reserves can serve the country for more than 100 years producing 300KW of electricity and others for commercial needs within and outside the country. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Dar Es Salaam,. operates as a subsidiary of Intra Energy (tanzania) Limited.
Yet up to date This Australian Company has not done much, despite the hardship our country has gone through, we do understand that irony here is that all these important source of coal reserves are under NDC, who do not have knowledge in Power Generation, while these resources should have been under Stamico or MEM period.
Miradi ya NDC na Usimamizi wa Mzee Mzindikaya na DG NASARI inabidi uchunguzwe ,
4. KIWIRA : Coal Mine and 6MW plant was built in 1988 by the Chinese Government, it is one of our first source of coal. It has the potential to produce upto 600MG of power for the coming 50 years. NSSF had come up with plan to invest in the Power and Mining , and they had a very good project proposal, but did not materialize and may be still under-consideration at Stamico and the MEM.
Mheshimiwa all the above Coal fields combined can produce enough power to be consumed locally and export, I assume we can easily produce upto 2500MW , Combined with what we produce in Hydro na Gas, tungeweza kuwauzia nchi za jirani nasi tukawa tajiri kwa Umeme.
Mheshimiwa I wish To recommend that hata haya Mashirika yetu ya UMMA kama NSSF na mengineyo ni Wazawa, if they have the financial capability and the proper partners than they should not be hindered in participating in the nation building.
Sir I wish you will advise the President to look in the Power projects under NDC, Hapa kuna utata mwingi sana, also in your capacity look in the reasons why NSSF Has been eliminated by Stamico, and Kenyan Company was about to be given the project. We need Power soon, and if NSSF can convince you and your Team that they are capable wape huo mradi, kwani ni shirika la UMMA, na faida haitaingia kwenye mfuko wa Tajiri mmola au wawili, Na hii miradi inavyozidi kechelewesha kwa maslahi ya uongozi mbaya, tunakosa Umeme, Ajira, Uzalishaji nk?..
Dear Professor Muhongo MEM
I am very confident that your nomination back to Ministry of Energy and Minerals, is one of the best choice our Excellency President Magufuli has made, and God willing you will continue to develop this Ministry and achieve excellent results for the Nation at large.
Please Sir look in to the following areas, of potential power generation, ili tuondekewe na uhaba wa umeme: I am constant visitor to India and have seen how coal fired power plants are helping that nation in producing enough power to help run their economies; I had the opportunity to visit some plants in Hyderabad.
1. In Tanzania we have three major area where coal reserves are plentiful; A) MCHUCHUMA/LIGANGA, B) NGAKA AND C) KIWIRA, The reserves are estimated to be 5 billion metric tons , as announced by yourself. This by itself should have made us very self-sufficient in power, rather that very expensive Fuel/Oil based power generation. (Tanzania has 5 billion t of coal reserves)
2. MCHUCHUMA/LIGANGA,/;
This coal reserves are under NDC, and they have gone in to a JV with a Chinese company (Sichuan Hongda Co. Ltd) to build a huge steel plant using the Iron Ore reserves, and the Huge Coal reserves to produce power for the Steel plant and the extra power shall be used in the National Grid. I believe that this project is in progress, however if they had built the power plant first, today we would have had enough Power that would have made todays power cuts things of the past.
3. NGAKA COAL:
This field was awarded to a venture Capitalists Australian company (Tanzania. Tancoal Energy Ltd) in a JV with NDC, the JV was entered during 2008, It is one of the best Coal field with a very high quality of coal and with an estimated reserves of 1 billion MT. This means Ngaka Coal Mine reserves can serve the country for more than 100 years producing 300KW of electricity and others for commercial needs within and outside the country. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Dar Es Salaam,. operates as a subsidiary of Intra Energy (tanzania) Limited.
Yet up to date This Australian Company has not done much, despite the hardship our country has gone through, we do understand that irony here is that all these important source of coal reserves are under NDC, who do not have knowledge in Power Generation, while these resources should have been under Stamico or MEM period.
Miradi ya NDC na Usimamizi wa Mzee Mzindikaya na DG NASARI inabidi uchunguzwe ,
4. KIWIRA : Coal Mine and 6MW plant was built in 1988 by the Chinese Government, it is one of our first source of coal. It has the potential to produce upto 600MG of power for the coming 50 years. NSSF had come up with plan to invest in the Power and Mining , and they had a very good project proposal, but did not materialize and may be still under-consideration at Stamico and the MEM.
Mheshimiwa all the above Coal fields combined can produce enough power to be consumed locally and export, I assume we can easily produce upto 2500MW , Combined with what we produce in Hydro na Gas, tungeweza kuwauzia nchi za jirani nasi tukawa tajiri kwa Umeme.
Mheshimiwa I wish To recommend that hata haya Mashirika yetu ya UMMA kama NSSF na mengineyo ni Wazawa, if they have the financial capability and the proper partners than they should not be hindered in participating in the nation building.
Sir I wish you will advise the President to look in the Power projects under NDC, Hapa kuna utata mwingi sana, also in your capacity look in the reasons why NSSF Has been eliminated by Stamico, and Kenyan Company was about to be given the project. We need Power soon, and if NSSF can convince you and your Team that they are capable wape huo mradi, kwani ni shirika la UMMA, na faida haitaingia kwenye mfuko wa Tajiri mmola au wawili, Na hii miradi inavyozidi kechelewesha kwa maslahi ya uongozi mbaya, tunakosa Umeme, Ajira, Uzalishaji nk?..