Namibia Power Corporation
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State companies , ministries and institutions in Namibia |
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| Designation: | Namibia Power Corporation |
| State level: | State company |
| Founding: | 1990 (1964) |
| Employee: | 1086 (2018) |
| Turnover or budget / budget : |
N $ 6594.8 million (2018) |
| Profit: | N $ 1256.1 million (2018) |
| Highest office: | CEO |
| Officials: | vacant (since July 23, 2015) |
| Headquarters: | Windhoek |
| Superordinate position: | Ministry of State Enterprises |
| Homepage: | www.nampower.com.na |
Namibia Power Corporation (mostly just NamPower for short ) is a Namibian state-owned company and national electricity producer in the country. The company emerged in 1990 from the South West African Water and Electricity Cooperation (SWAWEK) , which was founded in 1964, and is under the indirect management of the Namibian Ministry of Mining and Energy . Among other things, the pricing is monitored by the independent Electricity Control Board (ECB).
Long-time managing director Paulinus Shilamba was suspended on July 23, 2015.
Infrastructure
At the time of Namibia's independence in 1990, public power grids were only available in the cities. Due to the intensive expansion of the network, numerous villages and rural regions (farms) are now connected to the NamPower public power grid.
NamPower has power plants (currently using water , coal , diesel ) as well as the necessary infrastructure for distributing the electricity. The electricity distribution is incumbent on Nampower directly (to farms and mining), the five Regional Electricity Distributors (RED) (regional electricity distribution companies) as subsidiaries of NamPower and the cities as agents. With the participation of SWAWEK and the South African IDC , the Ruacana hydropower plant was built as part of the Cunene project since 1971 .
Currently (as of 2015) up to 85 percent of Namibia's electricity needs are met by imports from neighboring countries, including Eskom from South Africa . These contracts will expire in the coming years, so that Namibia is looking for alternative sources of electricity and striving to expand the existing power plants as well as to build new power plants.
See also
Web links
- Ministry of Mines and Energy (English)
- Regional electricity supplier ErongoRED (English)
- Regional electricity supplier Cenored (English)
- Electricity Control Board (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NamPower suspends Shilamba. The Namibian, July 23, 2015 ( Memento from July 23, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )