Nationwide Efforts to Electrify All Villages in Tanzania
Latest Tanzania energy news · Nationwide Efforts to Electrify All Villages in Tanzania explained · updated Aug 13, 2026 · energy news · power · electricity
TLDR
- Out of 12,318 official villages in mainland Tanzania, REA has successfully brought grid power infrastructure to virtually all of them, hitting a near-universal village connection rate.
- REA has delivered an exceptionally strong performance in recent years, successfully driving a 96 per cent to 100 per cent grid connection rate among mainland villages and raising the overall rural electrification rate.