DAR es SALAAM: Five hydroelectric power stations have been shut down in Tanzania by TANESCO to curb down on the excess electricity on the national grid. This was revealed by the country’s Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa.
Additionally, he said that the country’s major power plant, Mwalimu Nyerere Hydroelectric Station alone has produced enough electricity to support some of the major cities such as the nation’s main economic hub, Dar-es-Salaam.
“We have turned off all these stations because the demand is low and the electricity production is too much, we have no allocation now” an official from the state-run power company, Tanesco, said.
It has also been reported that the heavy torrential rains which have been falling this year have already filled the 2,115 MW Julius Nyerere hydropower dam with water.
These heavy rains have already caused about 58 deaths in Tanzania. They have also ravaged other East African nations such as Kenya. Tanzania has in the past years suffered chronic power outages due to shortages.
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It’s the first time that the country has met its power demands and even surpassed it, and the only country in East Africa that has ever produced an excess of electricity than the demand.
