Quote:Nairobi, Sunday. Kenya is positioning itself as the regional power distribution hub through which electric power from as far as Egypt could eventually be transmitted to Southern Africa.
With the construction of one of the biggest power collection points in the region at Suswa, Narok County, the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) says it expects to be able to distribute power westwards to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi as well as southwards to Tanzania, Zambia and eventually southern Africa.
The Suswa project gained added significance last week when it emerged during a power industry conference in Nairobi that Tanzania and Rwanda have signed a power purchase agreement with Ethiopia to buy 400MW of power each.
Quote:Kenya has already signed a similar MoU with Ethiopia, and Ketraco is undertaking a Sh63 billion power evacuation project via a 1,100km high-voltage direct-current line from Wolayita Sodo in Ethiopia to terminate at a conversion substation at Suswa. Ketraco will then transmit power from Suswa through a substation being built at Isinya and onwards to Arusha. This line will then link to Singida, still in Tanzania, and onwards to Zambia as part of the ZTK (Zambia-Tanzania-Kenya) transmission line project.
Quote:Suswa will also link up to the Ol-Karia geothermal power plants and then take power to Uganda via the Ol-Karia-Lessos-Tororo line currently under construction. With several other high-voltage transmission lines converging at Suswa, it is emerging as the site of one of the most crucial infrastructure installations in the country.
“Suswa substation is actually a collection of substations,” John Mativo, the chief manager for planning and development at Ketraco, told Sunday Nation.
This gives lots of points to Kenya and Ethiopia. Ethiopia wants to be a major power distributor in Africa!!
The Grand Scheme:
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TULIA.........UFUNZWE!