By Daniel Itai.
Namibia. (News of The South) – Namibia will make local production account for 60 percent of its power supply due to a raft of measures which are set to improve power generation.
Yesterday Namibia’s minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo said, the country had liberalized the power sector to allow independent power producers and renewable energy companies to enter the energy market.
“We have put in place different measures as well as identified priority projects to make sure we are power sustaining by 2021. We have moved away from the monopoly where state owned Nampower was the only buyer of power, and allow other consumers to buy power directly from producers,” said Alweendo.
Last month, the Namibian government commissioned the Trekkopje solar power plant in Swakopmund which has a producing capacity of 5 MW. The plant was built by Sertum Energy Namibia, an independent power producer
Currently, Namibia relies on power imports from Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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