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New impetus needed to drive Sapp’s cross-border transmission model

Establishing a reliable financial framework for building cross-border power interconnections may be the single most effective way to improve electrification across sub-Saharan Africa. Yet bureaucratic impediments are holding up progress at an important scheme, the Southern Africa Power Pool (Sapp)’s Regional Transmission Infrastructure Financing Facility (RTIFF), which could implement its first projects in two to three years – with the right support.

Issue 484 - 15 May 2023

Pin Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Pin Transmission & distribution, Strategy & risk, Finance & investment

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