Southern African Power Pool (SAPP)

The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) was created in 1995 with the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU). The first MOU was signed by 12 countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the second MOU was signed by their respective national utilities.

The utilities currently participating in the SAPP are Angola’s ENE, the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the Democratic Republic of Congo’s SNEL, Lesotho Electricity Corporation (LEC), Malawi’s Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM), Mozambique’s EDM, Namibia’s Nampower, South Africa’s Eskom, Swaziland Electricity Board (SEB), Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), Zambia’s ZESCO and Zimbabwe’s ZESA.

SAPP’s coordination center is located in Harare, Zimbabwe.  Although the power grids of Angola, Malawi and Tanzania are not yet connected with other SAPP member grids, interconnection plans for the three countries are in varying stages of development.