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Browsing: Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco)
- The Eastern Africa Power Pool has made major inroads in increasing cross-border electrification.
- The system has the potential to connect 600 million people to clean energy.
- EAPP member countries are Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) is targeting to go live on power auctioning (trading) by December this year, the secretariat now indicates, in what will allow the 13-member countries to sale excess electricity across borders.
This comes as countries continue to build a strong power connection network, amid huge investments in renewable energy mainly solar, wind, hydro and geothermal.
The EAPP member countries are Burundi, DRC, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Council of Ministers and the EAPP Steering Committee met in Nairobi this week to deliberate on the future of the power pool …