A substantial amount of this year's budget is expected to be allocated towards the completion of the two power dams as the infrastructure sector prepares to take the lion's share of the budget.
The government has set December 2018 as the target to launch both projects, which should bring about 783MW of electricity to the national grid. That amount is more than three quarters of the country's current energy output. With more power coming onto the national grid, a pertinent question that the government faces is whether there is enough demand to consume all the energy.
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