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Sept. 29, 2022

Engineers have started synchronising various sub-system at the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 plant which is 97% complete and ready for commissioning in November paving way for its connection to the national grid

Hwange Unit 7 synchronised.

Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 was successfully synchronised with the National grid and started feeding electricity. 

Alaska-Karoi Power Transmission Rehabilitation Project 38% complete

Alaska-Karoi (132KV) Power Transmission Rehabilitation Project in Mashonaland West Province reaches 38%  completion level.

Hwange unit 7 and 8 expansion project has reached 97.2% completion level and will be commissed end of Dec 2022

The Hwange unit 7 and 8 expansion project has reached 97.2% completion level with unit7 set for commissioning by end of December 2022.

Hwange Colliery placed under reconstruction to ensure uninterrupted supply of coal to new power generators

Hwange Colliery placed under reconstruction to ensure uninterrupted supply of coal to new power generators

Caledonia Solar Power Plant Construction Project

The Caledonia Solar Power Plant Construction Project has so far achieved the following: installation of 12 megawatts solar modules; and completion of the control room, cabling, and of the line and substation.

Kanyemba Project in now 98%

The Kanyemba Project which targets the construction of 30.5 kilometres of a high voltage line and 3.1 kilometres of a medium voltage line, and installation of 12 substations to power 21 institutions as well as energizing the high voltage line crossing the Zambezi River from Luangwa in Zambia is now 98% complete.

Infrastructural Development

The Hwange 7 and 8 Expansion Project is 90% complete and on course to meet timelines. 

First pipes for the Deka project now in Hwange, and all the 3555 pipes arrived at Beira and will be ferried by 700 trucks

First pipes for the Deka project now in Hwange, and all the 3555 pipes arrived at Beira and will be ferried by 700 trucks

Deka project takes shape

Deka project takes shape. Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has started receiving components for the development of Deka pipeline project, with a consignment of over 3500 mild-steel pipes having arrived in the country on Friday from Mozambique

The Hwange Thermal Power Station Units 7 & 8 Expansion Project is 89% complete.

The Hwange Thermal Power Station Units 7 & 8 Expansion Project is 89% complete. As of 1 July, the power turbines have been fitted; Equipment for the control room has been fitted. The computers are now able to communicate with some other online equipment

Infrastructural Development

The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) stated that work to restore the Kariba Dam wall is scheduled to be finished by the end of this month, helping to enhance electricity output by Zambian and Zimbabwean power companies.

Hwange Expansion Project in Zimbabwe Makes Headway

Hwange expansion project is 68% complete.

Power Station Expansion project

Energy infrastructure development

The Minister of Energy and Power and Development, Hon. Z. Soda reported that construction of Units 7 and 8 at the Hwange Power Station is at 66.73% against a target of 91.84%. The Zimbabwe Zhongxin Electric Project is overally 98% complete. The power plant design and construction is 100% complete, while the transmission line is at 90% with 1.3 km of the line section remaining for completion by end of June 2021.

Hwange Thermal Power Station 7 and 8 Expansion Project has reached 49 percent completion

In the electricity sector, the Minister of Energy and Power Development informed Cabinet that the Hwange Thermal Power Station 7 and 8 Expansion Project has reached 49 percent completion. A total of thirty-four transformers were manufactured, and efforts to procure the materials required for the rest of the project are being pursued.

Operationalisation of the main electric power generation station at Kariba at full capacity.

Zimbabwe’s main hydropower plant is operating at near-full capacity for the first time since it was revamped two years ago, enabling the country’s state utility to generate more electricity.

The worst regional drought in four decades shuttered power generation at Kariba, located near the country’s northwestern border, for more than a year and led to daily power cuts of as long as 18 hours in Zimbabwe and neighboring Zambia. Both countries rely on the lake for about half of their power.

Completion of the expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station’s units 7 and 8.

The expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station’s units 7 and 8, which is envisaged to add 600MW to the national grid, is progressing well, with all the geotechnical investigations having been completed and design reviews, excavations and site levelling at an advanced stage. The completion of the expansion works will help ease power supply challenges currently besetting the country;

Government has with Chinese investment upgraded Kariba South Hydro and now an Indian firm is refurbishing Hwange South Thermal to the tune of $310 million.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa will next week meet representatives of major multinationals General Electric and PowerChina in a milestone indaba that will set the tone for construction of the massive Batoka Gorge Hydro Power Plant.The 2 400MW, $5,2 billion plant will be situated a few kilometres downstream Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, and Zimbabwe and Zambia will share the electricity equally.