What drives solar power usage in Tanzania rural areas?

According to SSB, the main driver for connection to the grid at household level is access to the grid in the community.

“In Dar es Salaam, 87% live in a community with access, and 86% are connected. In other urban areas, 70% have access at the community level, while 59% are connected.

“Even at the rural level, 36% have access at the community level. REA usually only builds one customer voltage transformer in the central area of a community. More remote households will need a second transformer, and today this requires a high connection fee.

“The only option in many rural areas is still solar power. But this may well be a cost-efficiency solution,” reads the report.