Featured in Lift-off for MENA? – 01-2014

“PV can play a crucial role”

Eastern Africa: Tobias Cossen, project manager for the Renewable Energy Project Development Program for Sub-Saharan Africa at the state-owned German Society for International Co-operation (GIZ), discusses the state of solar in Tanzania, Mozambique, and Kenya.

In Tanzania, PV development is supported by the government, which is looking to increase the share of renewable energy in the country’s electricity mix from 4.9% to 14% by 2015, according to Tobias Cossen. Cumulative installed PV capacity in Tanzania is estimated to have increased from 100 kW in 2005 to more than 5 MW …

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