Lighting Rural Tanzania Competition 2012 (LRTC2012) is a competitive grant program that aims at supporting private enterprises in developing and delivering a wide array of modern lighting products for rural households and businesses. Lighting Rural Tanzania Competition builds upon the base of lighting technologies that exist today, seeking market solutions to provide an array of products with the quality, applications, cost, and configurations needed by the low income market segment.

The Government of the United Republic of has received a credit from the World Bank towards the cost implementation of the Tanzania Energy Development and Access Expansion Project (TEDAP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit for payments under the contract for Provision of Consultancy Services to Carry out further Assessment of Wind Resources in Tanzania and Prepare Pre-feasibility Studies for Electricity Generation at selected sites in Tanzania.

The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has received a credit from the World Bank towards implementation of the Tanzania Energy Development and Access expansion Project (TEDAP) and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit for payments under the contract for Provision of Consultancy Services to Carry out Pre-Feasibility Studies for Small Hydropower Projects.

The TEDAP credit line was established to address the lack of longer maturity deposit or funding sources for commercial banks in Tanzania to extend long term loans to renewable energy projects.