Deputy Minister for Energy, Ms. Judith Kapinga on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Energy, Dr. Doto Biteko has cited the achievements made in the Ministry for the year 2024/2025, one of which is the improvement in electricity production.
Presenting the achievements to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and Minerals, yesterday in Dodoma, Ms. Kapinga said the country is meeting its electricity needs with an increase of 3,796.71 megawatts in February, 2025.
Ms. Kapinga said the increase compared to the 2,372.96 megawatts in July, 2024 is an increase of 59.9 percent while demand has increased by 13.34 percent.
“Mr. Chairman, as a country, we are meeting the needs of electricity supply and we continue to strengthen the transmission and distribution of electricity with the Julius Nyerere Project reaching 99.8 percent”, said Ms. Kapinga
The Director of Policy and Planning, Ministry of Energy, Mr. Petro Lyatuu said that of the power plants connected to the National Grid system, 2,481.27 megawatts or 65.4 percent are hydropower.
“1,198.82 megawatts or 31.6 percent are natural gas, 101.12 megawatts or 2.6 percent are oil, 5 megawatts or 0.1 percent are solar power and 10.5 megawatts or 0.3 percent are electricity from landfills”, said Mr. Lyatuu.
He said the country’s electricity demand has continued to increase to 1,908.15 megawatts reached on February 20, 2025 from 1,683.57 megawatts reached on July 15, 2024, which is an increase of 13.34 percent which shows the high demand for electricity from July, 2024 to February, 2025.
Regarding the success of the African Heads of State Energy Summit held on January 27-28, 2025 in Dar es Salaam, Mr. Lyatuu said that through the summit, a plan was launched that aims to increase the level of access to electricity from the current 78.4 percent to 100 percent by 2030.
He said the plan will help increase the speed of electricity connection in the country from 46 percent to 75 percent during that period.
He said the Government is saving approximately 58.4 billion shillings by connecting Kigoma Region to the National Grid, thus enabling the people of the region to develop their economic activities.
In terms of rural electricity, he said the Government has connected electricity to all 12,318 villages in Tanzania Mainland and
33,657 out of 64,359 sub-districts, which is equivalent to 52.3 percent, have been connected to electricity.
He said steps to provide electricity to health centers, water pumps, small-scale mining areas, industries and agriculture in rural areas are ongoing.
He said mining areas have continued to be connected to electricity and the project began implementation in April 2023 at a cost of 115 billion shillings.
He continued to say that the country has continued to have secure access to petroleum and diesel products.
He explained that the Government has issued a license for the development of the Ntorya Natural Gas Production Block
to ARA Petroleum Company.
The block has a natural gas reserve of 1.64 trillion cubic feet and thus, when production begins, it will enhance the availability of natural gas in the country for various uses such as generating electricity, industrial and other uses.
