Южноафриканский энергетический пул запускает проекты межгосударственных линий для объединения региона

Jean Madzongo, SAPP Programmes Manager: Project Advisory Unit, shares how the Southern African Power Pool is advancing cross-border transmission projects to strengthen regional electricity trade and unlock new generation capacity through power interconnection. She explained the work SAPP is doing to ensure infrastructure is in place so that generation projects can evacuate the power they create. “The projects we mainly do are interconnectors which means these are the projects that connect the different countries. Our stakeholders usually involve more than one country. “The national projects—the national utilities are responsible for those—but when they cross borders and it goes from one country to another, that’s when the Southern African Power Pool plays that coordination role,” she said. As an intermediary SAPP deals with multiple countries and utilities on a project so projects can become quite complex. Their goal is to get the whole SADC region interconnected. Madzongo goes into how SAPP is connecting the last three unconnected countries to the regional power pool and what power interconnection that will mean for electricity access for the different countries.