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TANZANIA
TANZANIA
Rural areas across Tanzania are now ready for electricity. Through the Rural Electrification
Densification Programme 303 villages close to an existing line will be connected; some of these
villages have been under the line for more than 20 years waiting to be connected to electricity.
Implementation is now ongoing, and the embassy visited some of the villages under the
programme in the Mbeya and Songwe regions on 5 and 6 October. Progress is good, and the
potential number of connections is four times what the programme was designed for. The
embassy considers that a great success.
BENIN
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the West African Power Pool (WAPP) have
initiated plans to build a second 330 kilovolt (kV) transmission line to boost electricity supply to
the Republic of Benin by 2021.
The Interim Managing Director of TCN and Chairman, WAPP, Usman Gur Mohammed, said
the transmission section of Nigeria’s power sector was also targeting to attain 20,000
megawatts transmission capacity within the next three years. He said: “The second 330kV
Ikeja West transmission line to Sakete in Benin Republic is necessary as the first could soon be
constrained by the demand for more power from the Nigerian grid increase.”
According to him, the TCN has also embarked on a nationwide installation of transmission
transformers with three installed in Lagos last week, two scheduled for the north and another
three scheduled for the Port Harcourt region shortly.
BENIN
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