The developers of a $4 billion hydropower plant on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border delayed the project until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Pre-construction work on the Batoka Gorge project Continue Reading
Even as drought and the effects of climate change grew visible across this land, the Kariba Dam was always a steady, and seemingly limitless, source of something rare in Africa: Continue Reading
IT is evident that Zambia, like many other countries in the sub region is experiencing an electricity deficit. The problem is not exclusively Zambian. The entire sub-region is experiencing a power deficit largely due to the industrial growth which has by far outstripped the power generating capacity of most countries, Zambia inclusive. Industrialisation, coupled with urbanisation and the loud cry by rural parts of Zambia to be included on the national electricity grid, has stretched the capacity of Zesco to limits, forcing the company to start rationing. That is why Zesco has embarked on the Zambia Power Rehabilitation Project (PRP) whose overall objective is to supplement Government’s efforts of enhancing the ability of Zambia’s electricity supply industry to provide electricity at least cost and in an efficient manner to stimulate more and inclusive growth in the Zambian economy. The PRP involves the rehabilitation and up-rating of the three major […]
