Namibia offers lessons as BPC gets more billions :: Mmegi Online

The Botswana Power Corporation is due for a P1.5 billion subsidy in the coming financial year, the latest in billions spent over the years on the electricity utility. Last week, Namibian energy officials offered lessons on how they weaned off their own ‘BPC’. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

Under the original Transitional National Development Plan covering the financial years between April 2023 and March 31, 2025, the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) was allocated P1 billion in support from government.

The Corporation was due to receive the bulk of the P2.68 billion approved by Parliament under the TNDP for “electricity generation transmission and distribution,” a description that includes tariff subsidies and support to import electricity as well as rural electrification, grid extension and the installation of renewable energy.

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