{"id":11093,"date":"2013-10-22T05:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/number-of-rwandans-with-electricity-to-increase\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T05:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:41:29","slug":"number-of-rwandans-with-electricity-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/number-of-rwandans-with-electricity-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Rwandans with Electricity to increase from 17% to 70% in the next 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The Energy Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) has announced that within the next 4 years the number of Rwandans who have an Electricity grid will increase from the current figure which stands at 17% to 70%.
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This initiative is in line with other projects aimed to increase electricity production; which, currently stands at 110 megawatts to the government target of at least 563 megawatts by 2018.<\/p>\n

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The Director General of EWSA, Ntare Karitanyi, explained that the government seeks to achieve this target by increasing its energy capacity with various sources; such as, methane gas, peat, solar and biogas.<\/p>\n

Ntare stated; \u201csome projects were implemented while others have yet to be implemented\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a press briefing session that took place on 21 October 2013, the EWSA administration emphasized that the target is to allow more Rwandans to have access to Electricity.<\/p>\n

He added that although some mega energy projects were delayed, particularly, the 100 megawatt methane gas project on Lake Kivu, the country is still on course to achieve its targets.<\/p>\n

Another major project that Rwanda counts on is the Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project: which received a boost of US$340 million this past August to produce 80 megawatts of electricity for Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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