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Zimbabwe Power Company seeks investors for 3 thermal power stations
THE Zimbabwe Power Company is seeking private sector investors with large power demands to take over, modernise and run its three small thermal power stations in Harare, Munyati and Bulawayo in return...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia to speed up two key power projects
Zimbabwe and Zambia are working to expedite the implementation of two key power generation projects to bring relief to citizens of the two countries who, along with others in the region, have been end...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 23:02hrs | 1248 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe paying price for shoddy energy deals
ZIMBABWE is paying the price for failure to tap into renewable energy, as climate change is hindering power generation at Kariba Power Station - the country's largest electricity generating plant - wh...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 14:06hrs | 3526 | by Staff reporter
China to avail more assistance to Zimbabwe
CHINA will soon avail more assistance to Zimbabwe in agriculture, energy, health and science and technology sectors, the country's Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Guo Shaochun, said yesterday.Addressi...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Government ramps up efforts to complete Lake Gwayi-Shangani by year-end
CONTRACTORS have started opening access roads and doing pipeline servitude clearance for the laying of the 245km pipeline from Lake Gwayi-Shangani to Bulawayo as Government steps up efforts to ensure ...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:33hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
ZNCC backs call for power tariff hike
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) yesterday said government should grant troubled power producer, Zesa Holdings, authority to hike power tariffs and give impetus to its recapitalisation...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:21hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
COP26: Mnangagwa tried too hard
THE Glasgow COP26 meeting in Scotland, United Kingdom, painted a grim picture about the environment and imminent dangers of climate change. However, besides Africa and the third world carrying the can...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 23 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zimbabwe political uncertainty hampering energy sector revival, says AfDB
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has cited an unstable political environment and the risk of expropriation as some of the reasons unnerving potential investors from injecting capital in Zimbabwe's ...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 20 | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
No free Chinese lunch
CONSTRUCTION of the US$100 million six-storey new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Harare, is well ahead of schedule, with the Chinese contractors working round the clock.This is good news t...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1748 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Chasi to revoke license of dormant IPPs
THE Government will consider revoking licences of Independent Power Producers failing to kick start their projects as it moves to reduce the power deficit grappling the country, a Cabinet Minister has...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:05hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set date for Gwayi Shangani dam completion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the nation that the government will avail all the necessary funding to ensure that the construction of the Gwayi Shangani dam is completed by December next yea...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 14:30hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
Misplaced priorities: Mathebeleland is marginalized and abjectly poor
The seeking to restore a monarch in Mathebeleland never ceases to amaze most of us who come from the region. Is restoring a Khumalo clan indeed a priority for our region? What value is the King of Mat...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 16:32hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Honde Valley haven for national sparkle
In my recent and first visit to Honde Valley, Mutasa North district, I emerged a proud Zimbabwean citizen who was equipped with new knowledge on how rich our nation is. I had an over 300km dri...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 14:37hrs | 939 | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Power outages suffocate already struggling remaining few industries' business
The goings are getting tough and tougher for Industries in Bulawayo and other parts of the country due to the advent of the current escalated electricity load shedding forcing the already struggling r...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 07:30hrs | 2385 | by Stephen Jakes
Hwange power station in $1,3b expansion project
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is embarking on a $1,3 billion expansion programme for Hwange Thermal Station in a move that will see the power utility increase its power generation by 600 megawatts....Published: 07 Oct 2013 at 15:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA woos investors for Gairezi Power Project
Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), a wholly owned subsbsidiary of Zesa Holdings, is in talks with investors to fund the construction of the Gairezi Mini Hydro-electric power station, says its chairman, Vic...Published: 26 Jun 2013 at 17:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese debt stalls Kariba power project
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy says government should come up with ways of ensuring that the US$27 million debt owed to the Chinese company, Sino-Hydro by the Industrial Dev...Published: 05 Dec 2012 at 18:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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