GeoAfrica Stakeholders Workshop
25th - 26th May 2023, Silversands Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Welcome to the first GeoAfrica Stakeholder Workshop organized by The University of Dar es Salaam through the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering and Technology.
The aim of this workshop is twofold. Firstly, it will act as a platform to introduce and publicise the GeoAfrica Project to the key geothermal energy stakeholders in Tanzania and through media coverage, to the general public. Secondly, the workshop will bring together the key geothermal energy stakeholder in Tanzania and the project partners to discuss the geothermal energy development situation in East Africa and Tanzania in particular, and to start developing and proposing policy guidelines and a roadmap for geothermal resource utilisation in Tanzania. The latter is the key deliverable of Work Package 5 of the GeoAfrica Research Project.
Workshop Deliverables:
- Proposed Geothermal Policy Statements
- Proposed 5 or 10 years National Geothermal Roadmap
In the workshop, different Energy policies from different countries including Kenya, Zambia, Turkey and Tanzania were reviewed. The gaps in Tanzania Energy Policy were identified, including:
- The Tanzanian Energy Policy has presented renewable energy policy statements instead of having policy statements for each renewable energy source Geothermal being one of the sources.
- There are no clear geothermal energy policy statements.
The group proposed the following priority areas to be included in the geothermal energy policy statements:
o Geothermal source o Conversion/production o Conducive environment for investors
o Capacity building o Local and central government involvement o Financing o Risk o Land utilization
o Environmental aspects o Regulatory and legislature o Geothermal technologies o Protocol, Standards, accreditation o Health
o Knowledge management o Gender o Economic prosperity o Energy efficiency o Institutional arrangement
o Climate change o Infrastructure o Stakeholders constitution : private and public o Conflict resolution
The workshop brought together a range of relevant participants, including Eng. Mathew Mwangomba, General Manager, Tanzania Geothermal Development Company and Eng. Emilian Nyanda, Ag. Commissioner of Renewable Energy, Ministry of Energy, Tanzania, as well as a Consultant from NIRAS and the GeoAfrica project partners: Prof. Fredrik Haglind, GeoAfrica Team Leader, Technical University of Denmark, Dr. Sarah Ayeng’o, GeoAfrica Team Leader, University of Dar es Salaam, Dr. Meseret Teklemariam Zemedkun, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Prof. Ivanka Orozova-Bekkevold, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Prof. Nicholas Mariita, Project Coordinator, Dedan Kimathi University, Prof. Cuthbert Kimambo, Project Coordinator, University of Dar es Salaam, and Mr. Peter Vivian-Neal, Chief Executive Officer, Kalahari GeoEnergy Ltd.
The GeoAfrica Team sends thanks to all participants for a fruitful workshop.
ARGeo-C9: First Announcement and call for papers
The Government of the Republic of Djibouti, through the Office of the Djiboutian Geothermal Energy Development (ODDEG) , will be hosting the Ninth African Rift Geothermal Conference (ARGeo-C9) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), African Union Commission (AUC), Africa Geothermal Association (AGA), African Women Advancing Geothermal (AWAG), ARGeo member countries and other international partners involved in geothermal sector including Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Government of Iceland (MFA-Iceland); Geothermal Training Programme (GRÓ GTP ) under the auspices of UNESCO, and the International Geothermal Association (IGA).
The Conference will be hosted under the auspices of the UNEP Africa Geothermal Development facility Programme (ARGeo) as one of its biennial geothermal conferences.
