Tanzania: Giant Coal Projects Boost National Grid

Dar Es Salaam — With climate change hitting hard on Africa, governments should now change their altitudes towards the excessive use of hydro electric power which is now losing momentum as water levels are increasingly going down.

Tanzania's interconnected grid system has an installed capacity of 773MW, of which 71 per cent is hydropower and any shortcomings in rainfall usually causes power rationing which has been hurting the country's economy.

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