East Africa Outdoor Power System

P162806 The Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP) was established in 2005 with the signing of an Inter-Governmental Memorandum of Understanding (IGMOU) by seven Eastern Africa countries, namely: Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Sudan.

An integrated renewable energy development company delivering affordable and reliable clean energy. East African Power is a long-term, SR-driven business developing, building, and operating utility-scale, small and medium hydro and solar power plants in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Plus... East African Power (EAP) is an integrated renewable energy development and engineering company delivering affordable and reliable clean energy solutions. We are a long-term, social-impact-oriented IPP business developing, designing, building, and operating hydro and solar power plants in Africa.

A study commissioned by the East African Community whose report was issued in 2011 identified a number of regional power generation projects that could be undertaken to tackle the challenge of power supply shortages in the region both in the short term and in the long term.

Its membership presently comprises Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, the DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Power trade under the auspices of this pool presently ranges from 6% to 15% of the power generated in the region.

African governments are increasingly interested in new regional, bilateral or multilateral approaches that emphasise better coordination and 'pooling' of their efforts to create more robust regional power grids with the potential of lowering capital investment requirements across the region and reducing system operational costs.2