{"id":42353,"date":"2020-12-04T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reg-in-partnership-with-zimbabwe-electricity-supply-authority-to-foster-access\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T05:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:40:43","slug":"reg-in-partnership-with-zimbabwe-electricity-supply-authority-to-foster-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reg-in-partnership-with-zimbabwe-electricity-supply-authority-to-foster-access\/","title":{"rendered":"REG in partnership with Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority to foster access to electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MoU signed yesterday in Kigali by the CEO of REG, Ron Weiss and his counterpart of ZESA, Dr Sidney Z. Gata was also witnessed by the Minister of Infrastructure, Amb. Claver Gatete and the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to Rwanda, Prof. Charity Manyeruke.  <\/p>\n<p>The signed MoU provides a framework of cooperation and aims at laying the foundation for the establishment of a business understanding leading to the signing of the energy partnership infrastructure implementation agreements between both parties.  <\/p>\n<p>The MoU is signed following a visit by officials and engineers from Zimbabwe who have been in Rwanda witnessing the country\u2019s achievements in electricity distribution.  <\/p>\n<p>Amb. Gatete explained that the MoU reinforces bilateral relations that it is in the framework of cooperating to promote both countries.  <\/p>\n<p>He further stressed that Zimbabwe has come to learn from Rwanda\u2019s experience where officials visited various electricity infrastructure including Shango substation. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, Amb. Gatete said that signed MoU seeks to assess how concerned parties can collaboratively address citizens\u2019 problems.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to emulate a lot witnessed and requested to foster cooperation on both sides.  This will serve as the foundation for improved services rendered to citizens,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Manyeruke highlighted that the MoU is centered on cordial diplomatic and economic relations that have deepened roots.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Zimbabwe enjoy existing cordial relations.  Rwanda has an ambassador representing its interests in Zimbabwe and vice versa.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2017, RwandAir started flights to Harare in Zimbabwe.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda reports over 56% households with access to electricity of which 41.3% are connected to the main grid while 15.4% use solar energy. <\/p>\n<p>The government of Rwanda targets universal electricity access by 2024.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37311 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/reg-2.jpg\" alt=\"The MoU signed yesterday in Kigali by the CEO of REG, Ron Weiss and his counterpart of ZESA, Dr Sidney Z. Gata. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Energy Group (REG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, (ZESA Holdings LTD) paving way for both institutions to learn from each other\u2019s expertize in fast-tracking universal access to electricity.  } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42353"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42353"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}