|04 OCTOBER 2016| NISHATI ASSOCIATES LIMITED WINS POWER AFRICA OFF-GRID CHALLENGE PHASE TWO

Since its registration in January 2012, Nishati Associates Limited has continued to grow in its dedication to providing solutions to the rural majority in Tanzania and the region by providing advisory services, technical assistance and project development. Nishati has been participating in various grant competitions and challenges so as to be able to implement projects in the rural areas, which most times have proven not to be commercial; under the same auspice, Nishati participated in the Power Africa off-grid challenge phase two which was launched in February 2016. Nishati was shortlisted and chosen to be one of the beneficiaries of the grant; this grant will provide the most needed finance to the on-going micro-hydro project at Ludilu village in Makete District in Njombe to partly finance the hydraulic structures and distribution network. With this grant, we are now sure that the power will be generated and reach the end users who have been waiting for this project to realize for more than a decade.

Ludilu village is located in Makete District, Njombe Region, around 40km from the existing accessible power grid. The project is expected to benefit the community of the village, which hosts more than 1,000 inhabitants and improve the socio-economic situation of the village as a whole. The management of Nishati Associates Limited sincerely express their deepest gratitude to the Power Africa Initiative for considering financing rural energy projects, which can not easily be done without collective financial efforts from various stakeholders.

Power Africa is an initiative launched in 2013 by the U.S. government via the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), African governments, bilateral and multilateral development partners, and the private sector to double access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Power Africa has two main targets: to expand access to power across sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 through Increasing installed power capacity by 30,000 MW and to create 60 million new connections to double electricity access.

Once completed, this project will make the second micro-grid type of project implemented by Nishati Associates after a biomass Gasifier-powered microgrid, which currently supplies at least 50 households in Nyakagoma village in Geita District.

|03 OCTOBER 2014| NISHATI ASSOCIATES LIMITED WINS LIGHTING RURAL TANZANIA COMPETITION 2014

Nishati Associates Limited (NIA) emerged as one of the winners in LRTC2014 Grants financed by the Rural Energy Agency (REA).

Under this grant, NIA will implement the project on the ELECTRIFICATION OF LUDILU VILLAGE THROUGH MINI-GRID POWERED BY MICRO-HYDRO RESOURCES. This project will implement the realisation of a 68-kW micro hydropower scheme that will generate power from the Salala stream available in Ludilu village, Makete District, Njombe region in Tanzania. Ludilu village in Makete District is 40km off Makete-Njombe earth road. It is located at 120km from Njombe town.
The project will supply power to Ludilu village which has a total population of around 1,145 and 277 households.

By providing Ludilu village with electricity, the project site will improve Ludilu village living standards, education facilities, health, mother and child care, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and social life in general.

Together with the above, there are more indirect impacts like improvement of income, possibilities of processing their crops at the village level in order to increase the market price, relief of hard life in the villages, to make access to a better social life and healthier at the household level.

With the capacity of 68kW installed, the project will be able to supply power to at least 250 households and power other social economic activities such as agro-processing.

At the moment, the village community depends entirely on unsustainable means of power supply, specifically the use of diesel generators for agro-processing activities. Education is very much affected by the lack of electricity, whereby school children are not able to study after dark. The village is located to Lupali secondary school, which could also be connected to the proposed power and improve the academic performances of the students who are located in a very remote area.

The use of clean energy will also improve health conditions at the household level, thereby avoiding the use of kerosene lamps and fuelwood for lighting, which causes respiratory diseases, especially in women and children.

The project will be implemented in 18 months, starting from November 2014
NIA also won the Lighting Competition in 2012 (LRTC2012), where it implemented solar electrification in public schools and entrepreneurship centres in eight villages in Geita Region.