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Electricity woes in Zimbabwe are seemingly not going to end any time soon following an admission by Energy Minister Soda Zhemu that the Hwange Thermal Power Station is too old to be trusted with a formal way of electricity production.
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) executive chairman Sydney Gata has admitted technology being used at Hwange Thermal Power Station is 38 years old and it is expected to operate at every second, hence several faults resulting in short supply of electricity.
The Hwange Thermal Power Station expansion project is now at 67,9 percent complete, with major milestones having been reached in the journey towards providing relief and self-sufficiency in power generation in the country.
Government has applied for a US$310 million credit line from India towards rehabilitating Hwange Thermal Power Station to ensure efficient electricity generation capacity.
LOAD-SHEDDING is expected to significantly ease within the next three months as Zimbabwe is close to settling its debt with South Africa’s Eskom — one of the country’s major power suppliers — while payments to Mozambique continue, a Cabinet minister has said.
The US$1,5 billion Hwange Thermal Power Station Expansion project is now 40 percent complete with the contractor, Sino Hydro, optimistic that the project will meet the January 2022 deadline.
Heavy rains which pounded Hwange at the weekend knocked out Hwange Thermal Power Station when the coal got wet but two 120 megawatt units were back up yesterday with a third expected to be on the grid by last night, giving 360MW.
By Tanyaradzwa Rusike
Power utility, Zesa, is undertaking a US$3,6 million refurbishment of Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 6 expected to be complete in December.
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 Megawatts (MW).
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZEDTC) has said load shedding in the country is now on stage 2 following a technical fault at Hwange Thermal Power Station which could result in increased electricity outages outside the originally advertised schedule.