{"id":6227,"date":"2017-08-28T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2017-08-28T06:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:44:05","slug":"progress-wind-projects-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/progress-wind-projects-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress of wind projects in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania\u2019s Government is currently in the process of developing a framework to accomplish this through renewable energy feed in tariffs, offering guaranteed pricing for solar and wind generated power<\/p>\n<p>Emerging Market Power (EMP) recently shared a positive news on the progress of the development of two wind projects across Tanzania, with construction expected to commence in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report shared by EMP, the Met Mast, which is the device for measuring as well as monitoring wind velocity, was successfully transported and installed in Nala ward &#8211; Dodoma.<\/p>\n<p>The measurement tower has started collecting and send wind data directly to Durban. The wind data collected will be the indication of what size of the project can be set including the number of turbines, size etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania suffers from continuing energy shortages, due to the impact of recurring drought on the country\u2019s existing hydroelectric power generation. The Tanzanian Government is now seeking to accelerate access to electricity across the nation, with a particular view to improving rural access to electricity.<\/p>\n<p>This is being accomplished in part by incentivising renewable energy development. Tanzania\u2019s Government is currently in the process of developing a framework to accomplish this through renewable energy feed in tariffs, offering guaranteed pricing for solar and wind generated power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania\u2019s Government is currently in the process of developing a framework to accomplish this through renewable energy feed in tariffs, offering guaranteed pricing for solar and wind generated power Emerging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/progress-wind-projects-tanzania\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4746,4749],"tags":[6378,6377,2466,6376,4832],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-renewables-2","category-wind","tag-emerging-market-power","tag-met-mast","tag-tanzania","tag-turbines","tag-wind-energy","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/kenya-wind-farm.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1Cr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5010,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/work-starts-on-kinangop-wind-farm-in-kenya\/","url_meta":{"origin":6227,"position":0},"title":"Work starts on Kinangop Wind Farm in Kenya","author":"","date":"May 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"By Zak Mwangi Aurecon has been appointed as owner\u2019s engineer by the project company, Kinangop Wind Park Ltd (KWP), for the construction phase of the 60.8 megawatt wind farm in Kenya\u2019s Kinangop region.\u00a0 This project has African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) as the majority owner. 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