Improving Access to Electricity in Burundi

Weza Power is a privately owned & operated electricity distribution company in Burundi.

It is working to connect 9 million people by providing electricity to residential & business customers across peri-urban and rural Burundi.

Weza Power is the first new private-sector electricity distribution company operating at a national level in sub-Saharan Africa for a decade. The Public Private Partnership (PPP) is financed by a blend of private and public funding, including commercial equity and debt, climate-based and other concessional funding, multilateral donor support, and private grants.

Project Partners

Weza Power was formed as a result of a multi-year development partnership between Anzana Electric Group (formerly Virunga Power, a Gridworks investee company) and the Government of Burundi.

Supporting the initiative with development & construction capital is the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and the US Government’s Power Africa initiative.