The East African Governments are focusing on developing renewable power, especially in areas where there is no connectivity to the grid. 

As a result, renewable power generation is expected to increase in the next few years grow livelihood in the region.

To meet rapidly increasing energy demand, the counties are currently implementing the East African Rural Electrification agenda in which it aims to increase the population’s electricity access to 50% by in the next 10 years. 

The agenda aims to ensure the electrification of rural areas through renewable technologies, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind. 

The East African countries pushing to promote, stimulate, and facilitate access to modern energy services in rural areas.

East African countries are focusing on the development of its regional grid network to evacuate power from the planned generation facilities.

In Tanzania, Over 9,000 km of high voltage lines, 12,090 MVA of transformer capacity and 56 new substations are planned to be added to the network in the next decade.

In addition to expanding and strengthening domestic grids with in individual countries in the region, East African community is also executing various cross-border interconnection projects with in its neighbouring countries such as Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia to uplift regional power exchange to boost industrial growth and improve energy security without overloading the existing transmission network.

The pace of development of its transmission network picked up in 2021, with tenders for various interconnections and major projects being issued, backed by some of the major organizations and multilateral donor agencies.

With this pace, the region is expected to grow its transmission network at a greater rate in the coming years.