Challenges and Issues Affecting the Exploitation of Renewable Energies in Tanzania

Biomass

Challenges/ issues affecting the exploitation of biomass technologies in Tanzania include:

• Limited technical know how.
• High initial and investment costs of some biomass technologies.
• Limited awareness and exposure to the existence and potentials of the technology of Tanzanians.
• Lack of financial facilities for energy investments.
• Lack of consideration and capability to calculate life cycle costs of different energy options for Tanzanians.

Hydropower

Challenges/ issues affecting the exploitation of hydro technologies in Tanzania include:

• Limited technical know how.
• High initial and investment costs for the technologies.
• Limited awareness and exposure to the existence and potential of the technology in Tanzania.
• Lack of financial facilities for energy investments.
• Lack of consideration and capability to calculate life cycle costs of different energy options for Tanzanians.
• External interests especially from donors.

Solar energy

A number of challenges/ issues affect the exploitation of solar technologies in Tanzania:

• Limited technical know how.
• High initial and investment costs for the technologies.
• Limited awareness and exposure to the existence and potential of the technology of Tanzanians.
• Lack of financial facilities for energy investments.
• Lack of consideration and capability to calculate life cycle costs of different energy options for Tanzanians.
• External interests especially from donors

Wind energy

A number of challenges/ issues affect the exploitation of wind technologies in Tanzania:

• Limited technical know how.
• High initial and investment costs for the technologies.
• Limited awareness and exposure to the existence and potential of the technology of Tanzanians.
• Lack of financial facilities for energy investments.
• Lack of consideration and capability to calculate life cycle costs of different energy options for Tanzanians.
• Limited political will.
• External interests especially from donors

References

GTZ (2007): Eastern Africa Resource Base: GTZ Online Regional Energy Resource Base: Regional and Country Specific Energy Resource Database: II - Energy Resource.