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The SAPP Pool Plan further indicates that Infrastructure Financing Facility (RTIFF).
the development of priority transmission Several outputs have been accomplished
projects may result in cost-saving of around including a Diagnostic Study, a Framing Paper
US$40 billion due to deferment in the on identification of RTIFF Core Services,
development of generation projects. In this Strategic Case-Techno-economic study, and
regard, the SADC Secretariat in collaboration institutional arrangements where the
with SAPP is advocating for development of recommendation is under consideration for
interconnectors and national backbone operationalising the RTIFF as a hosted facility
transmission projects in order to facilitate by an existing institution.
energy trading and enhance security of supply The SADC Secretariat through SAPP has
where Member States with excess capacity will coordinated the planning and development of
be able to supply those with deficit in the region. power generation plants to address the
The SADC Secretariat in collaboration current supply shortfall in the region.
with SAPP supported the identified Member In 2020/2021, the SADC energy sector
States to undertake preparatory and feasibility was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
studies, and the Malawi-Mozambique However, the SADC region commissioned
transmission interconnector project has 2,400MW power generation capacity
reached financial closure. Commercial contributed by the Public Utilities and by
agreements were signed, Owners Engineer Independent Power Producers (IPPs) from
procured, while procurement of consultants Angola, Botswana, DRC, Eswatini, Malawi,
and contractors started in the first quarter Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
2021 and construction is scheduled to Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
commence by the end of 2021. The graph illustrates power generation
Mozambique and the United Republic of capacity commissioned between 2010 and
Tanzania concluded bilateral negotiations in 2020.
June 2021 and signed-off the Inter- 65
Governmental Memorandum of Understanding Regional Energy Sector Regulatory Initiatives
(IGMOU) for preparation for technical and and Regional Energy Access Initiatives
feasibility studies for the Mozambique-Tanzania The SADC Secretariat in conjunction with the
transmission interconnector project. Regional Electricity Regulators Association
In order to unlock funding for (RERA) continued to assist the DRC in
transmission projects, the Secretariat with establishing an energy regulatory authority.
support from the World Bank completed studies Therefore 15 of the 16 Member States have energy
for the establishment and operationalisation of regulators, with the exception of Comoros, the
the SADC Regional Transmission newest SADC Member State.

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