The City of Windhoek has approved a plan to electrify approximately 4,000 households in informal settlements over the next five years beginning this year, The Brief can report.
According to the City, the implementation of the 2023 to 2028 electrification plan is expected to cost between N$15 million and N$20 million per annum.
The municipality says the informal areas were identified in consultation with the Department of Housing Property Management and Human Settlement in accordance with the Development and Upgrading Policy.
“Proposed areas for electrification consideration will be limited to demarcated erven situated within the informal areas of Windhoek rural, Tobias Hainyeko, Moses //Garoeb, Khomasdal and Samora Machel constituencies,” states the City of Windhoek’s latest council report.
The five-year electrification plan is an extension of the previous ones, which ran from 2017 to 2022, and was funded by the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development and NamPower, with a total capital investment of around N$45 million.
“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 report notes.
