The Government has pointed the power cuts ravaging the country to the depressed and poor power generation being done at Hwange.
Zimbabwe is facing a power deficit with government rolling more than 12-hour power cuts ( in some areas) to manage domestic demand.
According to estimations made by professionals, Zimbabwe at its peak requires at least 2 200MW.
Speaking during post-Cabinet briefing on Tuesday, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka indicated that power cuts were as a result to outages at Hwange Power Station.
“In the past week or so we have had an increase in power cuts but that is due to depressed generation because of the outages at Hwange. We were promised that two units will be coming on board and the Minister of Energy and Power Development presented today that most likely those two units are already feeding into the grid.
“Currently generation is about 1 400MW per day supplemented by imports. We are currently somewhere between 1 500MW-1 600MW against maximum demand per day of 1 825MW as presented by the Minister of Energy and Power Development today.”
The minister said Via The NewsDay.
