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Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau
The Second Republic’s drive to make Zimbabwe power self-sufficient is on track with Centragrid Pvt Ltd pushing to feed 25 megawatts into the national grid by December.
Independent Power Producers (IPP) are expected to produce at least 600 megawatts of power feeding into the power grid by the year 2030.
Sitting on a 120-hectare area in Zvimba’s Nyabira area in Mashonaland West Centragrid Pvt Ltd has utilised 50ha under Phases 1 and 2 where, expansion from an already working 2,5-megawatt to 25 megawatts is currently underway.
The Special Advisor to the President on the Implementation of Government Programmes and Projects, Dr Jorum Gumbo accompanied by Mashonaland West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Marian Chombo, toured the multi-million-dollar plant located 35km west of Harare to have an appreciation of the current expansion drive works.
The company’s plans to increase generation capacity to 25 megawatts by October 2021 were met with various challenges but, the Centragrid officials assured Government that it pushes to have more power added onto the grid so as to help the country chip away the huge electricity deficit that has affected industries while keeping most households under load shedding.
China’s Sinohydro is currently working unit producing 2.5 MW.
Sinohydro is building nine more units of 2.5 MW each with self-tilting photo-voltic solar plants to adjust according to the direction of sunlight for constant power production.
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Bongani Ndlovu