BPC Extends Grid To 100 More Villages

The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is extending the national grid to 100 more villages this year, in a move that will extend electricity to nearly the whole country.

On Friday, the corporation’s CEO, Stefan Schwarzfischer told Business Monitor that with 40 villages having been connected in 2016; 60 last year and the 100 due in this financial year, very few villages would be left without access to electricity.

“There will only be a few left that we will cater for in 2019, there’s not much left,” he said.

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