Power Corner Tanzania will provide power to 40,000 homes across 160 Tanzanian villages by 2020. Since 2015 when it came to the country, the firm’s target was to electrify rural communities with off-grid solar energy.

The company will install a mini-grid in each targeted village for not more than $1000 per community. Overall, about $140,000 will be spent to set up the off-grid solar stations. Financing is mobilized with French power developer Engie.

Frederic Madry, Chief executive of Power Corner told newspaper The Citizen that the Ketumbeine village, in the Longido district, has already been electrified as part of the program. Fourty homes were connected to the grid and twenty more should add up next month. The 16 KW installed grid aims to power 160 households of the locality.

Tanzania’s rural electrification program eyes a 75% electrification rate by 2033.

Gwladys Johnson