Search / Cahora bassa
Zimbabwe fret over new rolling blackouts
Zimbabwe's Energy Minister Edgar Moyo has been summoned by Parliament to address the severe hydrological challenges at Kariba Power Station, leading to extensive power outages of up to 18 hours in urb...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:01hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Africa's 'biggest steel plant' fires off furnace this December
A Chinese firm, responsible for constructing what has been hailed as Africa's largest steel operation near Mvuma, Zimbabwe, has announced that it will commence its furnace operations in December as th...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:54hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Electricity generations continues to improve in Zimbabwe
Electricity generation in Zimbabwe continues to show improvement, leading to a significant reduction in hours of load shedding. Hwange Power Station, in particular, has increased its output.Ac...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
No more need for load shedding, says Zesa
IN a huge breakthrough for the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa the power utility, Zesa, says the country no longer needs a load-shedding schedule as it is now able to produce enough electri...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange power plant output falls to 10%
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is at various stages of repairing four units at Hwange Power Station after a series of breakdowns led to a sharp drop in power supply, after output at the country's se...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Southern African power crisis stems from post-liberation history
THE electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post-liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerabl...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe edges closer to oil, gas discovery
Zimbabwe is inching closer to making a commercial discovery of oil and gas after Invictus Energy last week said results from initial evaluation of data from its Mukuyu-1 well site showed strong eviden...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big energy users to import 500MW
Zesa is set to import more power to meet demand from the country's biggest energy consumers — the Intensive Energy Users Group (IEUG) — who require more than 500 megawatts (MW) to run their operat...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deploys military in newfound oilfields
ZIMBABWE'S military incursion into the Mashonaland Central province for a routine training exercise is part of efforts by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to familiarise itself with the area as the S...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 20:43hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
ZESA says more power cuts nationwide; blames technical and imports challenges
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company warned of possible outages on its Twitter account on Sunday, saying there will be increased "load curtailment" from Sept. 24.ZETD...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on cusp of oil, gas breakthrough
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed oil and gas firm Invictus Energy has started assembling drilling equipment at its Mukuyu-1 prospect in Muzarabani, Mashonaland Central, ahead of exploration...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Batoka takeoff failure leaves Zimbabwe, Zambia facing uncertain power future
THE revelations by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) that a consortium which clinched a deal to implement the 2 400-megawatt (MW) Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme (BGHES) was struggling to mobilise ...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:35hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power cuts end in sight
Zimbabwe will start receiving 100MW from Zambia's state-owned power utility, Zesco, early next month under a five-year deal, while a delegation from Mozambique is expected in the country today to fina...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 09:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures 300MW
ZESA Holdings has secured a 300 megawatt (MW) power import deal with regional suppliers as the energy crisis threatens to cripple industry and domestic consumers, confidential documents show.T...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 10:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speech blacked out by Zesa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was left with egg on his face after an abrupt power outage interrupted his speech during the ground-breaking ceremony of the Cyber City in Mt Hampden on Wednesday....Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes huge strides taken towards ending power cuts
IN what would be a major boost to the country's industrialisation and modernisation journey, Hwange Thermal Power Station Units 7 and 8 are almost complete with 88,29 percent of work having been done ...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power cuts threaten growth targets
Players in the manufacturing industry and mining sector have warned that continued power cuts could derail first quarter 2022 economic growth targets due to lost production time.This follows a...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Loadshedding to go in three months'
LOADSHEDDING being experienced in the country will be a thing of the past in three months' time as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) is employing a number of measures to ensure there is...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff writer
Power cuts could derail industrial targets
The power outages besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects during a difficult phase for Zimbabwe when the economy is reeling from the effects of COVID-19, economic analysts an...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual Zimbabwe pours US$12.4 million into solar projects in Zimbabwe
Old Mutual Zimbabwe has poured US$12.4 million (over R188 million) into solar projects around the country, which will generate a combined 25 MW upon completion.The Zimbabwe economy has been st...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 19:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Resurgent power outages to gnaw at growth targets
THE power outages currently besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects at a time the economy is already reeling from Covid-19. Zesa has imposed rolling blackouts that ar...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe oil drilling to begin in 2022
INVICTUS Energy, the Australian firm prospecting for oil and gas in Muzarabani, may start drilling exploration wells early next year after taking delivery of state-of-the-art equipment to be used in i...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe firms fret over Mozambique crisis
ZIMBABWE'S industries have warned that a deadly insurgency roiling neighbouring Mozambique has emerged as the greatest threat to power and fuel imports that could further hurt Harare's fragile economy...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces prolonged power outages
ZIMBABWE faces prolonged power outages after a surge from South African electricity imports overloaded its network and caused generating plants to fail, Energy minister Zhemu Soda said.The sur...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe oil project takes shape
ZIMBABWE'S ambitions to produce oil and gas along the Zambezi basin in Muzarabani is taking shape with Australian Stock Exchange (ASE)-listed firm Invictus Energy set to commence a seismic programme i...Published: 07 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's energy import debt shoots to US$97m
ZESA's debt to Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) rose to US$97 million last year, up from just over US$45 million in 2019, the Mozambican power supplier HCB says.Zimbabwe was the second lar...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti vows to continue exposing graft
TENDAI Biti has effectively been using his position as the chair of Zimbabwe's parliamentary public accounts committee and his legal and financial skills to expose billions of US dollars of taxpayers'...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to get 100 MW solar plant
POWER generation in the country and more significantly in Bulawayo is set to increase after it has emerged that British investors have partnered a local company to set up solar fields that will genera...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 07:46hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa fights to end blackouts
AMID fears of a return to prolonged and debilitating power cuts in the country, following the blaze that engulfed Hwange Power Station on Wednesday evening, authorities were hopeful yesterday that the...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign banks shut out debt-ridden state firms
SEVERAL foreign banks have spurned requests by Zimbabwe's broke state firms to borrow millions of dollars to pay off more debts and bankroll critical infrastructure development projects, businessdiges...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 18:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube crafts debt control plan
Government has formulated a framework for evaluating, monitoring and managing publicly guaranteed and on-lent loans as they contribute to significant debt accumulation in the event of default by the p...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa cuts home use power costs
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) yesterday announced a surprise 60 percent power tariff cut on one of its bands for domestic electricity usage.Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Dis...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chasi a victim of state capture'
FORMER energy minister Fortune Chasi (pictured)'s dramatic sacking from cabinet two weeks ago was a culmination of an intriguing plot of state capture by powerful fuel cartels, notably his spirited bu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hwange breakdowns reverse improvement in electricity availability
A breakdown of three power generation units at Hwange Thermal Power Station recently, has seen Zesa increasing load-shedding across the country, Cabinet has observed. This reverses the i...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays $10 million to Mozambique's power utility
GOVERNMENT says it has paid US$10 million to the Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), Mozambique's power utility to clear part of the US$35 million debt it owes them to unlock fresh power imports....Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time for serious legal action against ZESA
As the constant, but greatly debilitating, power outages continue to torment the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans - who are already at the mercy of an unprecedented economic turmoil in 10 years - with se...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zesa rectifies fault at Hwange
ZESA has managed to rectify a technical fault that developed on one of Hwange Thermal Power Station's generators, Unit 5, over a week ago, which resulted in the power utility losing about 160 Megawatt...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Revisiting the power situation
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) started receiving electricity imports totaling 400MW from Eskom of South Africa on the 9th of August 2019. The imports came as a relief to the Zi...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 08:53hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe lithium mine secures power supply
Prospect Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with African Continental Minerals (ACM) for the supply of power to the Arcadia lithium project and is exploring imports from the regio...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by newZWire
Zimbabwe eyes more power imports from Mozambique
GOVERNMENT is negotiating with Mozambique for up to 400MW of electricity to continue alleviating power outages facing the country, the Minister of Energy and Power Development, Advocate Fortune Chasi ...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electricity woes to ease as Zesa fixes station
ZIMBABWE last week lost 160 Megawatts of power after one of the only reliable generation station Hwange Unit Five went down, further crippling power supply at a time authorities are battling to secure...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes 400MW from Mozambique
GOVERNMENT will this week dispatch a high-powered team of experts to Mozambique to negotiate for more electricity imports from Hydro Cahora Bassa as authorities continue putting in place measures to i...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Sustaining the Zimdollar
I AM naturally enchanted by the logic, sequence and clarity of a thought process. But l have grown to learn that, quite often, economic plans are elaborately ornamented.The number of economies...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:02hrs | 2 | by Persistence Gwanyanya
Mthuli Ncube doing the right things as Zimbabwe's trade deficit contracts by 60%
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit contracted by 60% to $542, 3 million between February and June this year due to foreign currency shortages for imports as well as a drop in the budget deficit.Trade fi...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures more electricity imports to ease outages
Zimbabwe will ramp up its electricity imports over the next few weeks, potentially easing rolling power cuts, after it agreed to make payments to clear its debt to a regional power utility, a treasury...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 19:10hrs | | by Reuters
Load shedding set to ease
POWER utility, Zesa has paid an additional US$890 000 to South Africa power company Eskom, as it steps up efforts to clear its debt and pave way for new power exports from the neighbouring country, an...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ raises red flag on forex demand
Daily demand for diesel has gone up by 20 percent to 3,6 million litres over the last four months as business and domestic consumers now heavily rely on the commodity to mitigate rolling power cuts cu...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa promises Zimbabwe electricity bailout
THE South African Government is considering a proposal put forward to increase power exports to Zimbabwe after high level talks between the two countries' energy ministers last week.In a telep...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kariba restricted to 358MW as dam water drops to 24%
State power utility, Zesa, needs to strictly adhere to a tight prescribed water ration that allows it to generate an average of 358 megawatts at Kariba to avoid depleting Kariba Dam following revelati...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
.jpg)
