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.
