Tanzania:

Tanzania has Huge Geothermal Energy Potential (AllAfrica.com)

Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal

Tanzania is endowed with a potential for 4,000 MW of cheap geothermal energy and the Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has challenged geoscientists in the country and Africa to tap it for the betterment of the people.

The geothermal potential is about three times the existing generation capacity of 1,583 MW produced by both Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) and independent power producers from hydro and thermal plants.

"Our neighbors in Kenya now produce about quarter of their electricity from geothermal but we are hardly generating a kilowatt from the energy," Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, revealed in Dar es Salaam on Monday while officiating at the opening of the three-day Third Young Earth Scientists Congress.

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