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Regional utility Zanzibar Electricity Corporation has issued a request for an EPC and O&M contractor for its first utility-scale battery energy storage system.

Tanzania
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Regional utility Zanzibar Electricity Corporation has secured funding for what could be the semi-autonomous region’s first solar PV plant.

Tanzania
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As demand surges, Kenya is looking to new power developments and imports from the Eastern Africa Power Pool to increase on-grid capacity, with KenGen advancing a new fleet of renewable projects, while a vital new interconnector with Tanzania has been energised and there are signs the IPP moratorium could soon end, writes Marc Howard, recently in Nairobi.

Kenya | Ethiopia | Tanzania
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A further $553m pledge has boosted the outgoing Biden administration’s commitments to the Lobito Corridor and adjacent projects to over $4bn. This points to a significant revitalisation of US ties with African countries – which may be too little, too late, although the Lobito project is unlikely to be halted by a more mercantilist Trump administration.

DR Congo | Angola | Zambia | Tanzania
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Commissioning of the 1.5GW Kenya-Tanzania Power Interconnection Project is a significant moment for both countries and the wider Eastern Africa Power Pool. Tanzania has also signed a PPA with Ethiopia to use the line to import power, setting a precedent for regional trading and pricing. The KTPIP is also a core component of the eventual Eapp-Southern African Power Pool link-up, write Kimemia Mugo in Mombasa and Marc Howard, recently in Nairobi.

Kenya | South Sudan | Sudan | Uganda | Rwanda | Ethiopia | Tanzania | Burundi
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In contrast to the existing Kenya-Tanzania line, and with work on the Tanzanian side of the Zambia-Tanzania line expected to be completed by mid-2026, the stalled Zambian component of the ZTK interconnector remains far behind schedule – much to the frustration of President Hakainde Hichilema. But new funding from the World Bank Group, the UK and EU is expected to see a quick project restart, write Marc Howard and Chiwoyu Sinyangwe in Lusaka.

Kenya | Zambia | Tanzania
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Commissioning of a fourth unit at the 2.1GW Julius Nyerere hydroelectric power plant has prompted the Tanzanian government to move away from gas-to-power capacity. The immediate consequence is that a power purchase agreement for Songas, the country’s first IPP, will not be renewed. Meanwhile, two foreign investors have launched arbitral claims of $500m and $1.2bn against the government, and progress remains static at the much-vaunted Tanzania LNG megaproject, writes Marc Howard.

Tanzania
Issue 516 - 14 November 2024

Is a Tanzania LNG breakthrough near?

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Tanzania’s most important gas project – and its largest-ever foreign investment – is the $42bn, 15m t/yr Lindi liquefied natural gas (LNG) development, also known as Tanzania LNG (TLNG).  A long-awaited deadline to conclude a host government agreement (HGA) was missed in February but in early November there were reports of progress.

Tanzania
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Building on funding commitments from the AfDB, US and EU, work is accelerating on the Angola-DRC-Zambia rail network. The Lobito Corridor’s first phase has already seen faster, cheaper exports of Copperbelt minerals and a feasibility study on a Zambian spur is due. Washington is now mulling support for a potential extension of the corridor to the Indian Ocean, which could compete with Chinese plans to rehabilitate the Tazara link, but might even lead to co-operation with Beijing.

DR Congo | Angola | Zambia | Tanzania
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Rift Valley Energy (RVE), a subsidiary of French asset manager Meridiam, has provided African Energy with an update on the timelines for its Suma and Liusenga hydroelectric power (HEP) plants in Tanzania.

Tanzania
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The UK/Norway-owned IPP Globeleq has raised $99m of debt financing for Mozambique’s first wind project, adding to its southern African portfolio. Despite industry pessimism over the prospects for utility-scale projects, Globeleq is advancing a large pipeline of greenfield renewable and gas capacity in eastern and southern Africa and is bullish over the future of utility-scale projects, writes Marc Howard.

Kenya | Mozambique | Tanzania | South Africa
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Meridiam-owned Rift Valley Energy has secured $15m in funding from the UK’s development finance institution British International Investment (BII) to build 7.6MW of wind and hydroelectric power projects.

Tanzania
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Faced by a severe drought which has seen water levels fall dramatically at its hydroelectric power plants, Zambia is hoping to revive abandoned private sector-led power projects and speed up work on an interconnector with Tanzania.

Mozambique | Zambia | Tanzania
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First gas is expected next year for Tanzania’s strategic Ntorya onshore play, which should significantly boost gas supply amid surging local demand, while operator APT is bullish, pointing to the huge gas resources being developed in adjacent acreage across the Mozambican border.

Tanzania
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Two units of the 2.1GW Nyerere hydroelectric megaproject are already online – adding 470MW to the Tanzanian grid – and a source has told African Energy details of the remaining seven turbines to follow. Already, the megaproject is generating surplus capacity to such an extent that state utility Tanesco is reducing output at other HEP plants while it waits for demand to pick up.

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