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"Zimbabwe Should Make Huge Investments In Solar Energy"

2 years agoFri, 02 Dec 2022 07:50:48 GMT
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"Zimbabwe Should Make Huge Investments In Solar Energy"

A local energy expert, Victor Utedzi, says Zimbabwe needs to make huge investments in solar energy to deal with its current energy crisis.

On Thursday, Zimbabwe had a shortfall of nearly 900MW, according to ZESA’s internal daily updates.

The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), which manages Kariba Dam, last week advised ZESA to stop production at the Kariba South hydroelectric plant because of low usable water levels.

Speaking during an interview with News24, Utedzi said another option that Zimbabwe has is to ask to purchase water from the Zambian side of the Kariba Dam. He said:

The solution [to Zimbabwe’s power crisis] is to increase the variety of power generation avenues in the country from other sources.

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The 600MW Hwange extension will help by reducing the amount of generation.

The country has to deploy more solar photovoltaic (PV), which works during the day and allows water to be conserved.

Solar is clearly the best prospect. It’s the lowest cost, quick to build, and the sun is in abundant supply in the country. There are also good wind resources spread throughout the country.

The Zimbabwe National Water Authority has a number of dams already built, which could provide up to 500MW of power.

There’s the Muzabani oil and gas prospect drilling by Invictus. It’s still subject to a successful drilling programme.

Even then, there is a need for significant capital spending to extract the gas, clean it into a usable form for power generation, and build transportation facilities for consumers.

It’s an excellent prospect that will require significant capital to be fully exploited.

He said Zimbabwe should improve the ease of doing business and assure investors that the environment is safe and profitable as it is competing with its neigbours for the same pool of capital.

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4 Comments

Bright · 2 years ago
Kungotaurawo uku I remember mugabe achivimbisa ma solar pama power station ese amheno kti zvakazoenda nepi
King · 2 years ago
all the investment made into hwange thermal power station expansion could have been invested into renewable energy, hydro power at existing dams, solar power plant, and even wind power
Anonymous · 2 years ago
Solar energy and wind power are scums
TENDAI TOMU · 2 years ago
Wicknell Chivhayo ate it all over again and then you are trying to provoke an altercation with the majority considering the same thing about these things?
Anonymous · 2 years ago
The Gwanda solar power project by Wicknell Chivayo what became of it? The Dema Diesel Power Plant Project what became of it as well? Tatove paZimsat 2 already and cabinet ministers and their deputies got a windfall of about half a million USD each as housing loans Talk of misplaced priorities
RAYONI ONLINE FASHIONS · 2 years ago
if they are really in parliament for the people they could have said let's not take the money but we sacrifice as means of saying thank you to the people who brought us here to be in parliament. manje iyoooh Zimbo my Zimbo shame

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