| Monday, 28 November 2011 22:56 |
| By Sylivester Ernest The Citizen Reporter Dar es Salaam. US-based energy firm Symbion Power has added 60MW into the national grid in its emergency power plan. The power has been connected to the grid from the company’s plant in Dodoma.The move would most likely relieve millions of Tanzanians from the prolonged power rationing that has been the norm for more than a year now. Under the government-driven emergency power plan, key private partners - - Symbion Power, National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and Netherlands energy firm Aggreko have been assigned to assist the government in adding a total of 572 MW to the national power grid by the end of December this year. Symbion alone has been assigned to contribute a total of 205MW. Briefing reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Symbion Power-Dodoma Project manager Don Brindle said construction and installation of the company’s 60MW plant, in the context of government’s emergency-comprehensive power plan, has been completed in Dodoma, and that power had already been connected to the national grid. "Power connection to the national grid was done on Sunday (last week)," Mr Don Brindle said. According to Mr Brindle, Symbion’s 60MW facility which arrived in the country from Dubai recently is expected to deliver a continuous supply of 50MW directly to the Dodoma network. “This will help to alleviate the severe power shortages that the country has faced this year…it would really help to relieve Tanzanians from the burden of prolonged power blues,” he said. The construction and installation of Symbion’s 60MW generators, he explained, took around two weeks since they arrived in Dodoma.He told reporters further that his site team had worked around the clock to get the power connected and that he was pleased that everything had gone according to plan. The official noted that Symbion's next task for the government would be to build another plant (150MW) in Arusha, observing that site preparation work was expected to commence within a week. Courtesy of thecitizen.co.tz |
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