Zimbabwe will start operating a new unit at its only coal-fired power plant by March, the country's deputy energy minister Magna Mudyiwa said on Wednesday.
The new unit of the Hwange power plant will lift Zimbabwe's installed capacity by more than 14% to 2,400MW. Stock photo.Zimbabwe will start operating a new unit at its only coal-fired power plant by March, the country's deputy energy minister said on Wednesday, providing relief to millions of citizens rocked by frequent power outages in recent months.
The new unit of the Hwange power plant will lift the nation's installed capacity by more than 14% to 2,400MW. The next unit is expected to be commissioned soon after, Magna Mudyiwa said, without giving a timeline. Less than half of Zimbabwe's 16-million citizens have access to electricity, and a global squeeze on funding new coal-fired capacity has limited the country's ability to plug chronic power cuts that have lasted as long as 18 hours in recent days.
“We have the capacity to generate up to 2,100MW from our power sources but we're generating far less than that, about 1,000MW,” Mudyiwa told Reuters.
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