Tanzania: Dar 'still committed to SAPP power interconnection'

The Minister for Energy and Minerals, has said that Tanzania was committed to the implementation of the Zambia-Tanzania interconnector, which would enable the country to be connected to Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) Grid and benefit from its arrangement. In a speech read on his behalf by his Deputy, at the official opening of the SAPP meeting in Dar es Salaam, he said the current power shortage in the country has been due to the depletion of water in the main reservoirs of Mtera and Nyumba ya Mungu, adding that if Tanzania was an operating member country, it would have imported 120 MW through SAPP grid to fill in the power shortage.