Botswana to speed up power generation-PHK

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Botswana was negotiating an "accelerated" power programme to deliver more electricity "far earlier", the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Ponatshego Kedikilwe said last week.

Kedikilwe told the Africa Downunder Conference in Australia that he would "pat himself on the back" if he could bring on an additional 250 MW of power by 2010.

He said the proposed 250 MW was planned by an independent power project (IPP) for which the law had been amended and which would make use of coal-bed methane.
Current electricity demand in Botswana was 530 MW, 72 percent of which was imported, "and therein lies the danger".

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