<p>TAREA conducts National Renewable Energy Day once every year. In the year 2017 event was held in Kigoma in the duration of 13-14 October. The event aims at raising awareness to the public on the potentials and limitations of renewable energy technologies. The event focuses at the communities living in the off-grid areas to show cases of alternative sources of energy to the national grid and fossil cooking sources of energy. The event offers to the renewable energy stakeholders opportunities of information exchange with government officials and exhibiting renewable energy technologies. <img src="/storage/app/media/Blog/RC%20at%20TAREA-web.jpeg" alt="" /> The Tan...</p>

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<p>In November 2011 the German City of Wuerzburg and the Tanzanian city of Mwanza signed a formal framework agreement for a climate partnership. Being one of the 50 so called Municipal Climate Partnerships, Wuerzburg and Mwanza aim to jointly tackle the effects of climate change.</p> <p>The partnership is centred on the implementation of socially friendly and economically efficient means of power production. Since the first assessment of the situation of the Tanzanian energy supply system in 2013, the use of solar energy has been recommended due to the high and steady solar insolation. This leaves Tanza...</p>

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In the remote district of Kisarawe and Pwani region in Tanzania, at Kifuru Village a truly innovative project has been deployed. The project aim is to empower women while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.

On the 18th of August, 2017 Kifuru women group known as Voice of Women Entrepreneurs at Kifuru (VOWEK) inaugurated their solar oven. Solar oven will be deployed for the local bakery. The project was funded by the Energy and Environment Partnership Program (EEP). While R20 is the international project manager and Rural Urban Development Initiatives (RUDI) of Tanzania served as project manager at the national level.

A solar oven has many advantages over their electrical or coal fired counterparts. In Tanzania only 32.8% of all households are electrified by any form of electricity [Tanzania Rural Energy Agency, Dec-2016]. In rural, remote areas the situation is worse. Additionally electrical ovens are relatively expensive to run, thus making the acquirement of an electrical oven for many an unfeasible option. Therefore, charcoal fired ovens are often the first choice. But these ovens have several disadvantages. The most obvious one being that they emit greenhouse gases and are therefore directly contributing to the climate change. Secondly the smoke from charcoal ovens can lead to diseases such as lung cancer.

<p>Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA) and Associazione Microfinanza E Svillupo Onlus-Italy with financial support from Waldensian Evangelica Church-Italy and Automous Province of Trento-Italy are implementing the projects <em>Allowing access to the sustainable energy to rural-low income communities in Malinyi, Tanzania</em> and <em>Enlight Education</em>.</p> <p>The main activities of the projects are: (1) Support the start up phase of a cooperative of solar technicians in the village of Malinyi (2) Provide financial education to Village Community Banks in the area of Malinyi (3) Set up and monitoring a micro ...</p>

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TAREA is conducting a study on the challenges facing solar mini grid developers.

On 20 January, 2017 TAREA has met with stakeholders, working with mini-grids, and representatives from the public sector to discuss a study on the effect of the EIA Audit Regulations of 2005 Part II on solar mini-grids, producing less than 1 MW, in Tanzania.

These regulations require Small Power Producers, projects creating less than 1 MW, to do an Environment Social Impact Assessment. TAREA, supported by BEST-Dialogue, is interested in studying the effects of this procedure and its impact on the solar mini-grids sector in Tanzania.

The workshop started with a unit on the current plans regarding the implementation of the study. This was followed by a round of questions and a discussion.

The study is on-going and results will be presented and discussed later on. The results will be used for advocating National Environment Management Council to exempt mini grids producing 1 MW or below from conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment.

Facilitated by SNV, the ICS Task force of Tanzania was created in 2011 and dissolved in the year 2015, with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM) as the Chair and the Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA) elected as the secretariat. The ICS Task force was initiated with the aim to increase coordination in the Improved Cook Stove (ICS) sector, for stakeholders to better understand and develop the sector through multi-stakeholder processes, while doing the necessary studies to come to a joint way forward for further ICS market development in the country. The following studies, links below were published by the ICS Task force:

-ICS Assessment and Testing

-ICS Country Action Plan

-ICS Market Intelligence Mtwara

-ICS Market Intelligence Arusha & Manyara

-ICS Policy Analysis report

Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA) with financial support from URBIS Foundation is implementing solar lantern revolving fund in Malinyi, Tanzania. The revolving fund is managed through 12 Village Cooperative Banks (VICOBA). By the end of June,2017 the project will be concluded.

VICOBA have got incentive as they retain money that is used now in the revolving fund and use for other programs.

Tanzania Renewable Energy Association (TAREA) through the support of bfz and CEFA conducted the networking event of renewable energy stakeholders in Njombe, Tanzania. The event attracted renewable energy actors from the regions of Iringa, Njombe, Ruvuma and Mbeya. More than 65 stakeholders participated to the event that was held on 18th September, 2016.

The event aimed at sensitizing renewable energy actors in the southern Tanzania on the importance of being in the sector network, and exchange of the information on the development of renewable energy in the southern region.

Sensitization on the networking aimed at encouraging stakeholders becoming members of TAREA that a branch can be found for the southern zone.

CEFA shared the success of mini hydro projects in the region. Read details

<p>The German District of Enzkreis and Masasi District of Tanzania has been working together in the areas of education, environment, sustainable energy and health in order to improve the livelihood of people of Masasi District in Tanzania. </p> <p>In the first phase of the common projects, Masasi and Enzkreis Districts installed 4.8kW solar photovoltaic system at Mkomaindo District Hospital to provide backup power to the Neonatal ward and Intensive Care Unit to power life saving machines. It further installed biogas digesters and their respective ovens at Migongo Mission, Lupaso Mission, Folks Developme...</p>

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The Government of Tanzania through Ministry of Energy and Minerals launched country SE4ALL program on 11th July, 2016.

Details of the Tanzania's SE4ALL program are on the underneath documents.

• Tanzania's SE4ALL Action Agenda
• Tanzania's SE4ALL Investment Prospectus