Attached please find a press release on: Botswana faces a severe electricity crisis, which has been compounded by a similar crisis in neighbouring South Africa. As a result, BPC, the public utility, has embarked on signficant capital expenditure for a phased expansion of its sole power station and the introduction of independent power producers (IPPs) in the country. Frost & Sullivan anticipates that the Botswana electricity industry is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.8 per cent between 2006 and 2015.

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