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Most of the national grid is currently supplied by hydropower but outages and high cost of power continue to hamper business in Tanzania. (Image source: Jeremiah Castro/sxc.hu)

With only seven per cent of the rural population having access to power supply, Tanzania will spend US$300mn in the next three years for rural electrification programme

The Angolan Ministry of Energy and Water has embarked on projects to revamp the country’s hydropower infrastructure. (Image source: USACE/Flickr)

The Angolan government has announced plans to invest up to US$4.09bn for constructing the Laúca Dam in the Kwanza Norte province, which is expected to generate 2,060 MW of hydroelectric power

The Kariba South plant is powered by the Kariba Dam. (Image source: Dave Cross/Flickr)

Work to expand Zimbabwe’s Kariba South hydro power plant and boost its output to 1,050MW from the current 750MW is set to start in January 2014, a spokesperson for state power utility ZESA has said

Domestic power customers who consume less than 50 kWh of electricity will not be affected by this new system of tariffs, EWURA said. (Image source: Ruben GS/sxc.hu)

Tanzania’s energy and water utilities regulatory authority (EWURA) has announced a 40 per cent increase in electricity tariffs effective January 2014

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