Tanzania: How AfDB-backed transmission line could boost electricity trading and regional integration (African Business)

Written By Kirsten McCracken

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Africa’s power pools play a crucial role in supporting regional integration by facilitating grid interconnection between neighboring countries. These interconnected grids allow nations to buy and sell power across borders through a shared market mechanism.

Investing in the vital infrastructure that underpins these power pools will as such remain a key focus for the African Development Bank as it intensifies efforts to light up and power Africa under Mission 300.

The Iringa-Shinyanga transmission line in Tanzania has emerged as a vital link in the Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) and that it will help boost the continent’s fledgling but promising regional electricity markets.

Kirsten McCracken
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