Zesa Holdings has warned Zimbabweans of crippling power cuts for the next 30 days owing to technical faults at the Hwange Power Station and a scheduled maintenance on one the units. The development has seen Energy and Power Development minister, Edgar Moyo, pleading with independent power producers (IPPs) to intervene to prevent the country […]
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Zimbabweans have been warned to prepare for crippling power cuts in the coming few months as the El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to negatively impact rainfall patterns resulting in reduced water inflows at Lake Kariba, the site of the country’s most reliable power plant. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and […]
Read MoreZimbabwe’s industrial electricity consumers and exporters aim to raise $250 million (~R4.7 billion) to build the first phase of floating solar panels on the world’s largest man-made lake. Members of the Intensive Energy User Group, which also includes mining companies, will own 52% of a development company for the project to be located on […]
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We were starting to think it was never gonna happen. We had been told that the commissioning of Hwange Unit 7 was imminent too many times before. The day finally came, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is proud to announce. Unit 7 was successfully synchronised late yesterday, Monday the 20th of March. As we […]
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Former Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) chief executive officer, Engineer Joshua Chifamba has blamed unfavourable tariffs for sinking the nation into the current electricity crisis. He speaks when Zimbabwe is experiencing a huge power deficit that has seen both households and industry enduring 18 or more hours-long power cuts which authorities have attributed to declining water levels at Kariba […]
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