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Tanzania is building a grid interconnector with Zambia to help assist in mitigating a drought-driven power crisis, Tanzania’s deputy prime minister stated at the Singapore International Energy Week conference.
Tanzania built interconnectors with its neighbours, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya. Now building an interconnector with Zambia, which will help to assist Zambia which is facing a deadly drought, stated Doto Biteko, who is also the energy minister. Tanzania being a member of the Eastern African Power Pool can sell to its neighbouring countries. The development of the grid interconnector will take 36 months, with work having begun last month, he added on the sidelines of the conference.
Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia said in 2014 that they would spend USD 1.4 billion to link their power grids by 2018 and create a regional power pool for trading electricity. On the USD 42 billion development of Tanzania LNG, a liquefied natural gas export plant, Biteko said the government is in negotiations with the project’s partners and operators to finalise the host government agreement but did not give a timeline for when negotiations will be completed.
Tanzania LNG was delayed by proposed government changes to a financial agreement reached last year. A government spokesperson said the proposed amendment to the Host Government Agreement intends to ensure that both sides benefit fairly in the whole deal.
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Equinor and Shell are joint operators while Exxon Mobil, Pavilion Energy, Medco Energi, and Tanzania’s national oil company TPDC are partners.
