Africa-Press – Namibia. THE Windhoek Municipal Council has approved a plan to electrify approximately 4,000 households in Windhoek’s informal settlements over the next five years (2023 to 2028). The implementation of the 2023-2028 electrification plan is expected to cost between N$15 million and N$20 million per annum.
The Five-Year Electrification Plan intends to build upon the previous plan, which ran from 2017 to 2022. Since 2017, the City of Windhoek has been working to electrify houses in informal settlements, completing 3,515 service connections to date in the areas of Otjomuise, Havana, Goreagab, One Nation, Okahandja Park, Ongulumbashe, Babilon, and Kilimanjaro. The electrification projects under the 2017-2022 plan were funded by the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development and NamPower (Pty) Ltd, with a total capital investment of around N$45 million.
The proposed areas for electrification consideration will be limited to demarcated erven situated within the informal areas indicated in the table below. These informal areas were identified in consultation with the Department of Housing Property Management & Human Settlement in accordance with the Development and Upgrading Policy.
The settlements to be electrified include Windhoek Rural’s mixed settlement, Extension One, some areas in Otjomuise, Samora Machel, Moses //Garoeb, and Tobias Hainyeko, which encompass informal settlements such as Oletunda, Okahanja Park, Babilon, Kilimandjaro, Ongalumbashe, One Nation, and Okandundu.
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