Kenya leads East Africa peers in access to electricity

Kenya leads East Africa peers in access to electricity

Approximately 70% of Tanzanians are now able to access the grid power. This is an increase of about 30% within two-years.

English ni kizungumkuti kwa wadau. hahahahahaha wanaona post ya stima wanahesabu kama connection. washamba hawa.
 
nairobae said:
Approximately 70% of Tanzanians are now able to access the grid power. This is an increase of about 30% within two-years.

English ni kizungumkuti kwa wadau. hahahahahaha wanaona post ya stima wanahesabu kama connection. washamba hawa.
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Access grid power means connected to the national grid power

There are several ways of connection like electricity from oil power generators, from a neighboring country, and other different means of electricity

Case like Kagera was accessing their electricity from Uganda and oil generators but now that's history we supply electricity even to Uganda

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According to Tanzania’s Rural Energy Agency (REA) Managing Director, Engineer Gissima Nyamo-Hanga, 67.5 percent of the country’s national population is connected to electricity as of December 2016. Furthermore, he adds, 49.3 percent of rural households are connected to the national grid.

This statement was in response to reports of slow rural and urban electrification brought up during a stakeholders meeting in Dar es Salaamheld by the Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Organisation(TaTEDO) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) earlier in September.

The meeting, which was covered by The Citizen, pointed to the need for participation by private sector players to speed up the process by establishing renewable energy mini-grids in off-grid rural areas in Tanzania.

So, the question is, how many of Tanzania’s rural households actually have electricity?


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PesaCheck has researched the issue, and finds that Engineer Gissima Nyamo-Hanga’s statement is FALSE for the following reasons:

The Government of Tanzania has committed to connect half the country’s population to electricity by the year 2020, and to connect at least 75 percent by 2033. However, only 32.8% of households in Mainland Tanzania are connected to electricity, even as TANESCO, the country’s power supply company, plans to triple production from the current 1,501MW to 4,915MW over the next three years.

The lead agency pushing this electrification process is Engineer Nyamo-Hanga’s REA, which works with the government-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) to construct electric infrastructure in rural areas.

Speaking via phone to The Citizen, Mr Nyamo-Hanga stated that more than two-thirds of Tanzanians have been connected to the national grid.

These sentiments stand in stark contrast to data which shows that in 2016,only about 32.5 percent of the country’s population had access to electricity.

Engineer Nyamo-Hanga’s claim appears to come from the 2016 Energy Access Situation Survey report, which says that 49 % of Tanzania’s rural population has access to electricity.

However, access to the grid and actual connectivity are two different things.

The 2016 report was published by Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics, and Engineer Nyamo-Hanga actually wrote a compelling foreword for it. The report states that the actual percentage of households connected to electricity in any form in rural Tanzania is only 16 %, with 65% of urban households connected to the grid as well.

Therefore Mr Hanga’s statement that 49 percent of Tanzania’s rural households have access to electricity is FALSE. It assumes that the figure with access to electricity is the same as those that actually have electricity. According to the 2016 Energy Access Report for Mainland Tanzania, only 16% of rural households actually have electricity.

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This report was written by PesaCheck Fellow Belinda Japhet, a Communications Consultant, Journalist and Online Editor based in Tanzania. The infographics are by PesaCheck Fellow Brian Wachanga, who is a Kenyan civic technologist interested in data visualisation. This report was edited by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi.

PesaCheck, co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, is East Africa’s first fact-checking initiative. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of so-called ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ or SDG public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. PesaCheck To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.


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REDEEMER. said:
Access grid power means connected to the national grid power

There are several ways of connection like electricity from oil power generators, from a neighboring country, and other different means of electricity

Case like Kagera was accessing their electricity from Uganda and oil generators but now that's history we supply electricity even to Uganda

You know nothing
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Ndo maana tunatumia facts from world Bank, wewe nikama hujui maana ya "are now able" Hio blog munatumia nimesoma tu approximately nikachoka. Guess work and Tanzania one side. Kenya and facts one side.
 
Mkikuyu- Akili timamu said:
Propaganda tupu
Urban - 97%
Rural- 49%
Total 70%
Tanzania’s grid power reaches to approximately 70% of the population
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FUNNY REPORT YA WORLD BANK INATAJWA KUWA FAKE ILI HALI REPORT YAKO YA 70% IMEANDIKWA NA MKENYA KWA ONLINE PUBLICATION HAINA USHAHIDI WOWOTE KWA MADAI YAKE!
I THOUGHT KENYAN NEWS IS ALWAYS FAKE NEWS ACCORDING TO YOU!! MBONA HII REPORT KUHUSU TZ KUTOKA ONLINE VIJIWENI KENYA IPO SAWA!!!

Home Regions East Africa Tanzania’s grid power reaches to approximately 70% of the population
Tanzania’s grid power reaches to approximately 70% of the population
By Nita Katume -
Last Updated: Dec 6, 2017

Approximately 70% of Tanzanians are now able to access the grid power. This is an increase of about 30% within two-years. Furthermore, the 35m figure is set to rapidly increase with the ongoing rural electrification programs.

The Acting Commissioner for Energy and Petroleum Affairs, Engineer Innocent Luoga further added that electricity access has increased increased from 40% in 2015 to above 67.5% in 2017. On the other hand, grid power penetration ranges from 97.3% and 49.5% in urban and rural areas respectively.

Commissioner Luoga was addressing the ‘International Conference on Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Future in a Changing Environment,’ (WISE-Future). Presently, the grid installed capacity is 1263.60MW including: 615MW natural gas, 567.7MW Hydropower and 70.4MW and 10.5MW diesel and biomass respectively. This is according to the commissioner. This, he said, is a demonstration of the government’s commitment to developing the energy sector.

Also read: Tanzania to embark on electricity generation project

Global perspective
The meeting was held at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)’s Tengeru Campus, in Arumeru District. ‘WISE-Future,’ Central Director, Dr Hans Komakech pointed out that effects of climate change would stifle ongoing efforts to ensure wide and reliable electricity supply around the globe.

He said more than 600m people within Sub-Sahara Africa still did not have access to grid electricity. This accounts for 46% of all people living without power across the world. Overall, at least 1.3bn people around the globe are still in the dark. Moreover, the global population is now clocking 7.2bn.

Nita Katume
 
COLLOH-MZII RELOADED said:
appproximately??? kwani hawako sure
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hata idadi ya watu baada ya zoezi la census bado wanasema ni approximately, kumbuka wakati unakusanya hizi data zoezi linaendelea, au wakati unahesabu watu, kuna wanaokufa na wanaozaliwa, wanaohama nchi na wanaoingia nchini.

Kwa ufupi Tanzania inafanya vizuri sana katika kusambaza umeme, inawezekana ikawa ni nchi ya kwanza Afrika yenye kasi kubwa sana ya kusambaza umeme. Ukisoma hiyo taarifa inaonyesha kwamba ndani ya miaka miwili ongezeko ni 30%, hii ndiyo taarifa iliyopo kwenye mitandao na watu wengi wakiwemo wakenya ndiyo wanayoitumia, kwa kasi hiyo, malengo ya kuunganisha umeme nchi nzima by 2020 yatafikiwa hata kabla ya 2020. Tanzania inabadilika kwa kasi sana, hata sisi wenyewe tunashangaa.
 
joto la jiwe said:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hata idadi ya watu baada ya zoezi la census bado wanasema ni approximately, kumbuka wakati unakusanya hizi data zoezi linaendelea, au wakati unahesabu watu, kuna wanaokufa na wanaozaliwa, wanaohama nchi na wanaoingia nchini.

Kwa ufupi Tanzania inafanya vizuri sana katika kusambaza umeme, inawezekana ikawa ni nchi ya kwanza Afrika yenye kasi kubwa sana ya kusambaza umeme. Ukisoma hiyo taarifa inaonyesha kwamba ndani ya miaka miwili ongezeko ni 30%, hii ndiyo taarifa iliyopo kwenye mitandao na watu wengi wakiwemo wakenya ndiyo wanayoitumia, kwa kasi hiyo, malengo ya kuunganisha umeme nchi nzima by 2020 yatafikiwa hata kabla ya 2020. Tanzania inabadilika kwa kasi sana, hata sisi wenyewe tunashangaa.
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installed capacity 1200 mata hauna aibu
 
Kwa umeme Magu hataki mchezo. Kama haukumsikiliza hotuba yake akihutubia EALA itafute. Ana intend ata cost per unit iwe sawa na Europe ili tushindane vizuri kwenye uzalishaji bidhaa viwandani. Sasa hivi maelekezo nikwamba mpaka 2020 vijiji vyote viwe na umeme. Tanesco wanakimbizana uko mashambani, uzuri jamaa akitoa maelekezo usipo tii hana huruma na wewe.
 
thisdayes said:
Kwa umeme Magu hataki mchezo. Kama haukumsikiliza hotuba yake akihutubia EALA itafute. Ana intend ata cost per unit iwe sawa na Europe ili tushindane vizuri kwenye uzalishaji bidhaa viwandani. Sasa hivi maelekezo nikwamba mpaka 2020 vijiji vyote viwe na umeme. Tanesco wanakimbizana uko mashambani, uzuri jamaa akitoa maelekezo usipo tii hana huruma na wewe.
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Maendeleo haitambui kifua, nguvu kijijini akili mjini. Ndio kwa maana hua munaisoma number.
 
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