Enough projects are underway

THESOUTHERNAfrican Development Community (SADC), a group of 15 countries with 277 million people, said there were enough power generation projects underway to end electricity shortages by 2019. Projects beginning in the next three to four years would bring the amount of capacity under construction in subSaharan Africa to 24 000 megawatts, or three times the current power shortfall, Remmy Makumbe, SADC’s director of infrastructure, said on Friday in Johannesburg. “The region is facing a power shortage,” Makumbe said. “Given the projects that are on the go, we expect that we will be able to bridge that particular gap by 2018-2019.” – Bloomberg