{"id":189709,"date":"2025-01-26T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-delays-household-electrification-target-by-10-years\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:44:43","slug":"namibia-govt-delays-household-electrification-target-by-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-delays-household-electrification-target-by-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Delays Household Electrification Target By 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>NAMIBIA has pushed back its goal of electrifying 432 000 households from 2030 to 2040 due to financial and capacity challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The revision follows findings from the 2022 Geospatial Least-Cost Electrification Plan (GLCEP) study, which revealed that the original target was unachievable within the set timeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In 2022, the World Bank, which supported the National Electrification Policy, highlighted the scale of the electrification challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The GLCEP study indicated that approximately 432 000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230512.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAMIBIA has pushed back its goal of electrifying 432 000 households from 2030 to 2040 due to financial and capacity challenges. The revision follows findings from the 2022 Geospatial Least-Cost Electrification Plan (GLCEP) study, which revealed that the original target was unachievable within the set timeline. In 2022, the World Bank, which supported the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6190,6308,4357,14047,4706,724,257,254,7594,5114],"class_list":["post-189709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delays","tag-electrification","tag-govt","tag-household","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}