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SADC Today Volume 15 No.1, December 2012
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THE SADC region has suffered a shortage of
electricity since 2007 as demand exceeds supply,
and the expectation is that this energy gap
will be addressed by 2014. However, the implementation
of projects can lag behind their
planned dates due to a lack of funding and
other constraints.
SADC is now taking longer term measures
to address the energy deficit and ensure selfsufficiency
in energy generation and an end to
electricity shortages, through an ambitious Energy
Sector Plan that calls for the region to increase
power generation by more than 70
percent and invest at least US$170 billion over
the next 15 years.
SOUTHERN AFRICA continued to record advances
towards regional integration and stability,
and gender equality, with the key indicators for
2012 being the launch of the long-awaited regional
infrastructure master plan and the strategic plan
on peace and security, among others.
RENEWABLE ENERGY technologies are expected to ease southern
Africa’s power shortages as the region seeks solutions to a decadelong
problem that threatens to derail efforts to attain energy self-sufficiency
and regional development.
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