Newton Livingstone, a manager at the Chalinze power cooling station, said at the weekend that second phase of preparations have started to receive electricity from JNHPP in connecting the new 400kV cooling station with the 220kV line stretching from Luguruni in Dar es Salaam to Morogoro.
The work will affect some areas served by the national grid from January 16 to 19, experiencing power cuts as connecting with JNHPP at the Chalinze station is conducted, he said.
After testing the connection, the 235MW of power will be fed into the national grid through the line that was being repeatedly shed of power during the past month, and is also the line where power was cut on Saturday, he explained
The connection exercise started on Saturday and is expected to be completed next Sunday, with repeated power cuts as the work continues, he said, noting that all areas along the 220 kilovolt line from Luguruni to Morogoro will be affected by disconnection while work on connecting JNHPP power at the 400kV Chalinze station is finalised.
The shutdown of this line will affect the capacity of electricity transmission and the quality of electricity for Coast and Dar es Salaam regions and for these reasons the company will have to reduce the use of electricity for customers to match the capacity of the transmission lines and be sure of quality of electricity,” it said
Chalinze cooling station will be hosting several electricity transmission lines in the near future as JNHPP power is added to the station to boost capacity of electricity transmission to the regions, he said.
It said that the electricity will be transported to various parts of the country to increase the level of electricity which will eliminate the energy problem in the country.
The JNHPP dam has nine plants producing 235MW each, geared to produce 2,115MW of electricity when fully operational and in optimal reservoir dam condition, ending power blues for the current level of consumer demand, experts say.
Arab Contractors, an Egypt firm, in collaboration with their Elsewedy compatriots, are in the final stages of building the water holding dam. The 6.6trn/- construction project had passed 92 percent since it was launched in 2018.
It was earlier projected to take 42 months but the Covid-19 global pandemic and other inconveniences delayed the work, while Deputy Prime Minister Doto Biteko noted ati theend of the year that the contractor has been paid 85 percent of the money to implement the project and the government expected that it will be completed soon.
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