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Tanzania set to add 6,000MW

to national grid by 2025 via

renewables - president

ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has said the head of the Woodrow Wilson International
that Tanzania should produce over 6,000MW of Center for Scholars.
electricity via renewable sources by 2025 as part Hassan also expressed optimism that Tanza-
of the East African country’s move to diversify nia could be among the biggest energy suppliers
its energy sources, local publication Daily News on the African continent as many countries are
reports. now looking forward to diversifying their energy
Hassan announced the target while on a sources.
working visit to the United States. Among “Tanzania is ready to take off. We are open
the projects envisioned are the Julius Nyerere to anyone in the world willing to invest with us
Hydropower Project (JNHPP), Ruhudji and and are embracing the private sector. I believe
Rumakali hydropower projects, expected to add the private sector can cause growth within the
2,100MW, 358MW and 222MW to the national country,” she added, as quoted by Daily News.
grid, respectively. Tanzania also aims to produce Tanzania’s abundant and diverse unexploited
in a range of 600MW and 700MW of electricity include hydropower, natural gas, coal, uranium,
from solar, she added. wind, geothermal and solar. Tanzania’s total
“Tanzania currently produces electricity electricity supply was 1,606MW as of 2021 and
from natural gas and also plans to tap energy electricity demand in the country is estimated to
from wind. There are also studies being under- be 4,000 MW by 2025.
taken to generate electricity from geothermal Hassan also said that government reforms
sources,” she said during a discussion held under have boosted investments in Tanzania, which
the theme ‘A New Day for US-Tanzania Rela- expanded from $1bn in the fiscal year 2019/2020
tions’, hosted by Ambassador Mark Green (ret.), to $8bn in 2020/2021. ™

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