Tanzania - TANESCO Hydro Power Stations (2015)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) is a parastatal organization under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. The Company generates, transmits, distributes and sells electricity to Tanzania Mainland and sells bulk power to the Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO) which in turn sells it to the public in islands Unguja and Pemba. TANESCO owns most of the electricity Generating, Transmitting and Distributing facilities in Tanzania Mainland. The dataset provides information on existing, under construction and proposed power stations for hydro, thermal and substations, as well as existing and under construction transmission lines. The data is geo-referenced , digitized and extracted from the national grid system map published in 2015 by TANESCO.
- Purpose
- The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, collectively the World Bank Group (WBG) strives to enhance public access to and use of data that can support development impact.
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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| Form | Shapefile |
| Extent | 0.001 |
| Place | Washington, D.C., US |
| Publisher | World Bank Group |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | Scale not given. ; Custom projection E 31°5ʹ36ʺ--E 38°45ʹ35ʺ/S 1°11ʹ47ʺ--S 11°24ʹ49ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | World Bank Group |
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Subjects
| Subject | Hydroelectric power plants |
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| Subject | Tanzania |
| Subject | 2017 |
| Subject | Utilities and Communication |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
| WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pd157sw9638 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This material may be shared or adapted provided appropriate credit is given to the originator, and the same license is used.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- World Bank Group. (2015). Tanzania - TANESCO Hydro Power Stations (2015) World Bank Group. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pd157sw9638
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World Bank GIS Datasets
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